| Description |
1 online resource (82 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Crab Orchard series in poetry
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Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Note |
"Open competition award." |
| Summary |
"Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier" begins "Shattered Bio," the first poem in Glaciology, Jeffrey Skinner's latest collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the "squeak of pine trees in a forest" to "pinwheel, the baby's hand," the poem provides a precise way of seeing how layers of tenderness and danger melt into one another, inhabiting the same world. At the center of the book, the eighteen-part title poem "Glaciology" takes readers to the core of misunderstandings as it juxtaposes the work of a glaciologist wi. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I; Shattered Bio; Queue; I've Been Working on the Railroad; Ode to a Photographer; Frame; The Wedding at Ram Island; The Children's Table; Exit Row; Kafka, Women; Coffee; de Kooning; Terrors of the Night; The Mission; Self-Made; You Need a Subject for the Sun to Rise; Signs & Portents; Theodicy; Jonquillity; Reunion; The End of Striving; The Barber; Part II; Glaciology; Part III; The Deal; The Fly; Icon; When We're Done Writing about the Self; Give Me Poland; Corrections; Vintage Clock; Event Horizon; Stutter; Votive. |
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Prayer for My DaughtersAll Things Move toward Disorder except the Newly Created; Throw It All Away; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover. |
| 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 |
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2000 - 2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013019872
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Skinner, Jeffrey. Glaciology : poems. Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review, [2013] ix, 68 pages Crab Orchard series in poetry 9780809332731 (DLC) 2013011886 |
| ISBN |
9780809332748 (electronic book) |
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0809332744 (electronic book) |
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0809332736 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780809332731 |
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