| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 78 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Prairie schooner book prize in poetry
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Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.
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| Contents |
Nothing -- Plenitude -- Elba -- On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems -- Questions for Godzilla -- The Invisible Man Looks into a Mirror -- Beyond Repair -- Minus -- History -- Psalm in Rain -- Romance -- Negation -- At Last -- The Naked -- Daydreaming of Ghosts -- The God of Neglect, Overheard -- From the Black Lagoon -- How It Won't Be -- Seduction with Entropy -- Veneration -- Apologia -- In Praise of the Defective -- Exit Interview -- Resignation -- The Cartoonist in Hell -- My Philosophy of Other Lives -- Donald Duck's Lament 000 -- Popular Romance -- These Arms of Mine -- Such as Myself -- Poem for the National Hobo Association Poetry Contest -- Notes for My Body Double -- Questions for Silence -- For a Woman's Back -- Ode -- Perfume -- Erasure -- Poem in Which I Seek Consolation in the Etymology of a Word -- Hunger -- The Numbers Are Not In -- Love Poem -- Water -- Ptolemaic Sunset -- Lullaby -- Practice. |
| Summary |
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this collection examines the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, "gar" in Old English means "spear," and an octopus can lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the light that make us human. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.
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Poetry, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guest, Paul. Notes for my body double. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006101404 (OCoLC)76967329 |
| ISBN |
9780803257993 (electronic book) |
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0803257996 (electronic book) |
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9780803260351 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0803260350 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
U5002 T089 .0003 -2007 |
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