| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 85 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Number 19 in the Vassar Miller prize in poetry series
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Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 19.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Rider unhorsed -- On leaving home -- Guide -- The largest of the circus animals -- Oakland work crew -- Worry bone -- Notes on thirty years in the life of a ventriloquist -- The end of reading -- Learning to wait -- American beech -- Inspiration -- Ventriloquist on an off-day -- Panic grass and feverfew -- Phaeton -- Ventriloquist on the moor -- Still life, Young Woman at the Water's Edge -- Park City Grille -- A brief history of the decline -- The origin of pigeons -- One of the dummies at night -- Explanation beginning with a river -- Maker -- Wildflowers of North America -- Self-portrait as a word ending in e -- Notes on colic -- How to make fatherhood lyrical -- Music in my head -- Death of a ventriloquist -- Proof #4 -- Visiting Chicago -- Four planes of experience -- Rattling funicular -- Caravaggio's Peter -- The prayer of glass -- Disabused sonnet -- The perhaps world -- Pull -- The worst first line -- More matter, less art -- The nots. |
| Awards |
2011 Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fatherhood -- Poetry.
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Fatherhood. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Subject |
Ventriloquists -- Poetry.
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Ventriloquists. |
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Ventriloquism -- Poetry.
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Ventriloquism. |
| Indexed Term |
Multi-User. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Fatherhood. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fay-LeBlanc, Gibson, 1974- Death of a ventriloquist. 1st ed. Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, ©2012 9781574414479 (DLC) 2011042003 (OCoLC)756913043 |
| ISBN |
9781574414554 (electronic book) |
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1574414550 (electronic book) |
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9781283924337 (MyiLibrary) |
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1283924331 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781574414479 |
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157441447X |
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