| Description |
1 online resource (62 pages) |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
My Desk Sets Sail -- The Art of the Moors -- Chagall's Blue Horse -- Curry -- Mangos -- Octopus Stuck Between My Teeth -- Lincoln -- Chumming Around with Hemingway -- The Many Offspring of Genghis Khan -- Kimonos in the Closet -- Talking to the Woman in the Yellow Kimono -- Rainfall -- Waking Up as a Buddhist -- My Buddhist Lessons -- Shakespeare in the Morning -- Talking Animals -- Bringing Things Back from the Woods -- Animal Souls -- The Immigrant's First Day at School -- The Races of Man -- The Old Teacher -- Troy -- The Man Who Made the Minotaur Up -- Those Days in Eden -- If Your Hire a Poet to Draw a Map -- Route 66 -- In The Company of Bedouins -- A Thousand Steeples -- The Kind of Sleep You Can Only Get in Church -- Upon Learning Disturbing Facts Concerning the Last Supper -- An Acre -- Amish -- Rural Aria -- Broom -- Hummingbirds -- The Meek -- The Lost Arts -- Rain Dance -- Republic of Umbrellas -- Taking the Psychological Test -- When a Fool Reaches Maturity -- A Good Idea -- Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights -- The Landscape Paintings of Cheap Motels -- In the Abstract -- The Acres of the Moon -- An Inventory of Moons -- How to Speak to the Senile -- Between Dogs -- The Tang Dynasty -- Moving Away from Home -- Surgery -- The Executioner -- After My Beheading -- All the Dead -- Getting Outfitted for a Casket -- Widow -- The Soldier's Hundredth Birthday Cake -- The Last Nazi -- A Hundred Years from Now |
| Summary |
"These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don't know when I've enjoyed reading a book so much."--David Budbill |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822979166 |
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0822979160 |
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