| Description |
1 online resource (86 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Kuhl House Poets
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Kuhl House poets.
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| Contents |
Equation for Cresting; Updraft; And Swung Them; Annapolis; Snow Bridge; The Tally; Footfalls; Snow Falling on Scales; Remnants of Ice-shelves; The Swiftly Emptying Air; Capital; Remnants of a Still-life; Blizzard; Salvage-weather; Rising; Ascension Theory; Natural Histories; The Tiers of Plains; Stained Glass; Signal; Latitude; Icelandic Summer; Interior; Instrument; As Makers of Sound; Firebreak; The Continuation of Earth through Light; Squall; Winter Range; Economy; Landscape; Rite of Spring; Supplemental Oxygen; Regents; Arctic Snow; Antigua; Attending; New Year; The Iron Range. |
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EstateProcedure; Sentinel; Empire; Self-arrest; Moss in the Shape of Boards; Revolution; Enlightenment; Anniversary; Cartographer's Mood; Observances upon Returning; View; Say Feast; Brittle Latch; Lather; Northern Plains; Anonymity; Broadcast; Pacific Rim; Another Last Transmission; Allowances; Elegy; Census; Kul House Poets. |
| Summary |
"This meditation," writes Christopher Bolin in Ascension Theory, "is about appearing without motes between us: / it is practice for presenting oneself to God." Bolin's stark and masterful debut collection records a deeply moving attempt to restore poetry to the possibilities of redemptive action. The physical and emotional landscapes of these poems, rendered with clear-eyed precision, are beyond the reaches of protection and consolation: tundra, frozen sea, barren woodlands, skies littered with satellite trash, fields marked by abandoned, makeshift shrines, sick rooms, vacant r. |
| 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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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bolin, Christopher. Ascension Theory. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2013 9781609381950 |
| ISBN |
9781609382056 (electronic book) |
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1609382056 (electronic book) |
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9781609381950 |
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1609381955 |
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