| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 63 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Table of 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. |
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Galen Rowell Rides Eliot Porter Like a PonyFSA; 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 vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South × South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet. Blending travel narrative, historical research, and the surprises of magical realism, Hood 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. South × South is poetry at its most inventive and surprising, insisting that the wor. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Antarctica -- Poetry.
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Antarctica. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hood, Charles. South × South : Poems from Antarctica. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2013 |
| ISBN |
9780821444559 (electronic book) |
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0821444557 (electronic book) |
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0821420380 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780821420386 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780821420386 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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