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Author Hood, Charles, 1959-

Title South x South : poems from Antarctica / Charles Hood
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 63 pages)
Contents Food for the Moon -- Waking Up with Mechanics -- C-17, Pegasus Field -- Tulips -- Things the Doctor Asks -- Girl, Trees, Paper Balloons -- Last Year's Checklist -- I Take Good Notes, Getting Ready to Fly South -- Scale Model -- Marble Point Refueling Station -- History of Luck -- Manifest for a Pole Flight -- Free-Fall (1) -- Free-Fall (2) -- What Comes Next -- One was named June- -- A Short History of Flight with an Emphasis on Food -- Robert Falcon Scott Strikes-Through His Journal Coming Back from the Pole -- Matchbox -- Pemmican -- Dibs on Shotgun -- Royal New Zealand Air Force -- Galen Rowell Rides Eliot Porter Like a Pony -- FSA -- Telling Michael Light -- Sunrise on Mercury -- Kate Coles Erases Me -- Suicide of Lawrence Oates -- Briefing -- Arrival Forms -- Fifteen Seconds -- Morning Edition -- Shackleton's Grave -- Some Luck, McMurdo -- Miss Gallagher -- Names -- Skype -- McMurdo, Still Lucky -- Pinniped Physiology -- I Cut My Knee, Too -- Exit Interview -- ACH 044 -- Water Sky
Summary A look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, this book celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet. Blending travel narrative, historical research, and the surprises of magical realism, the author presents life in Antarctica and the history of polar aviation as both a miracle of achievement yet also as a way to understand humanity's longing to be creatures of the heavens as well as the earth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject POETRY -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
SUBJECT Antarctica -- Poetry
Subject Antarctica
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821444559
0821444557
0821420380
9780821420386