| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry |
| Contents |
880-01 Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; *; Your World Is Harder than Mine: Instructions for Children Heading Off to School; Instructions for Our Children, Living among Internet Enemies; Today-Bored, Puckered, Lonesome-I Would Like to Order a Russian Internet Bride: A Trisonetto; The Sonetto of Accidental Inventions; This Deathy World; Poem to Your Wound; A Double Sonetto for Pyloric Stenosis; Claustrophobia: The Closet's Perspective; Agoraphobia: The Great Outdoors' Perspective; Taxidermy: A Translucent Love Poem; Lice: A Mother-Daughter Love Poem; A Fibrous Asbestos Sonetto |
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880-01/(Q To My Lover, concerning the Shaking ofthe Bladder Rattle at the Maid's BabyTo the Rumor-Monger amongst Us; Happy Little Death Threats; To My Lover, Phrenology Hobbyist; To My Lover, about His Bouffage Eating of Meats; To My Lover, about His Derelict Neglect of the Gate-Lock; To My Lover, concerning a Cure for Barn Swallow Mites; To My Lover, My 'Klept; To My Lover, His Hair Thick with Bear Grease; For My Lover, upon My Impending Death; *; The Practice of Being a Lamb; Jesus Wants to Explain the Body to His Father; Jesus Explainџ[s] His Father; Mary Magdalene and the Lost Body |
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Today, I Turn to Stretch Armstrong for ComfortSermon on the Mount Today at My Failing Kmart: A Broken Sonetto; After Having Sex on Palm Sunday, Some Clarity; My Enemy, Unloved, Has Only Struck One of My Cheeks: An Interrupted Sonetto; I Consider Doubting Thomas at Pet Kare in a Sonetto and a Half; Envy the Atheist in Sonetto; I Am Not in the Wilderness but at Home, Weak and Thankless in Double Sonetto; *; To My Lover, concerning the Yird-Swine; Today, Worn and Broke't, I Make Demands of My Lover; For Furious Nursing Baby; Burial Instructions-Abject & Fuming; Concerning My Lover, the Ogerhunch |
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To My Lover, concerning the Shaking ofthe Bladder Rattle at the Maid's BabyTo the Rumor-Monger amongst Us; Happy Little Death Threats; To My Lover, Phrenology Hobbyist; To My Lover, about His Bouffage Eating of Meats; To My Lover, about His Derelict Neglect of the Gate-Lock; To My Lover, concerning a Cure for Barn Swallow Mites; To My Lover, My 'Klept; To My Lover, His Hair Thick with Bear Grease; For My Lover, upon My Impending Death; *; The Practice of Being a Lamb; Jesus Wants to Explain the Body to His Father; Jesus Explains] His Father; Mary Magdalene and the Lost Body |
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Of Poor SpiritIn Rooms with Baby; Aquarium: Love Poem #1; Aquarium: Love Poem #2; Today, There Is No Time, Only Squalling Squalor; Don't Take Up with the Married Man; If You Do Not Eat Enough Omega-3 while Pregnant, the Baby Will Steal It from Your Brain; I Prefer the Earlier You-Dear Reader; On the Masochistic Need for Criticism; For the Blind Botanist's Wife; Today, You Leave Me to Go to the Store, but I'm Sure You Won't Come Back; Today-Hauling a Family on My Back-I Think of Fitzgerald's Exquisite Crack-Up: A Resistant Sonetto; Interviewers Ask How I Do It |
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As Men Relinquish Their ManlinessAmerica-Let Me Be Your Gravedigger: A Disfigured Sonetto; When the Girl Becomes the Bear; Acknowledgments; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover |
| Summary |
"In Instructions: Abject and Fuming, poet Julianna Baggott wrote some of the poems using words long lost from the English language, challenging our current language's sense of restraint. Other poems are about faith, quite directly, set against the backdrop of contemporary life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 29, 2016) |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780809335749 |
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0809335743 |
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