| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 68 pages) |
| Series |
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize |
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Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
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| Contents |
Nostalgia; Haying; Afoot in the Fields; A.M.; Second Person Singular; Illustration from an Early Reader; Moonwalk; My First Record; Mrs. Page; Playing with Dolls; Dreams of Parenthood; Cemetery on U.S. 271; Girl on a Horse; Turn to Stone; Stumble; Bush Hog; Clutch; Hawk; Early Hunting Trip; Firewood; Underpass; Report; Buildings; Moving House; Receding into Darkness; Winter Feeding; Dead Cow; Missing; Swimming in a Stock Tank; My Grandparents' Victrola; Smolder; Dinner; Main Street, from the Water Tower; Jarring Honey; Stem; Chris-Craft; Houseboat at the Bottom of a Cove |
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Catfish Joint on the RedDiving below the Dam; Cold Blood; At Sea; Treetop Love: An Ode; Poolside, Late Afternoon |
| Summary |
Gravel and Hawk dwells on the physical and cultural landscapes of the Texarkana border region, an area of stark natural beauty and even starker manifestations of its human habitation: oil derricks and pump jacks, logging trucks, chicken houses, come-to-Jesus billboards, and greasy catfish joints, a patchwork of dying farm towns and ragtag municipalities laced together by county roads, state highways, and that treacherous, rust-hued slurry known as the Red River. Gravel and Hawk charts the emotional landscape of a single extended family, its history of loss and gain, and, especially, its encou |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- General.
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American literature
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011047252 |
| ISBN |
9780821444085 |
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0821444085 |
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