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1 online resource (47 pages) |
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Poetry |
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polychrome |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary |
The solid rightness of image after image in Ken Brewer's poetry was never better than in Why Dogs Stopped Flying . His familiar style is plain-spoken, his humor reliable and self-ironic. Yet, in this collection perhaps more than his earlier work, the particularity of the poet's insight into the physical world and the warmth of his affection for it combine to create an unexpected transcendence. Beasts and bodies are transformed in his lines, and our dim, unremarkable lives on this shadowed earth become somehow more luminous-small words to the moon, small suns opening in the dark. |
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Why dogs stopped flying -- Belted galloways -- Broad-tailed hummingbirds -- Brother slug -- Cat -- Chickadee drive-in -- Coyote on a cloud of nitrogen -- Curl -- Dermatophagoides -- Field guide -- Fishing before the frost -- Fox at play -- Goat's milk -- Goldenrod spider -- Great spangled fritillary -- Henslow's sparrow -- Home -- How to train a horse to burn -- Largest living organism on earth -- Learning to draw -- Loons -- Magpie springs -- Martha -- Mourning cloak -- "Now the sun has come to earth" -- Old fences -- Scarlet penstemon -- Sheep -- Solitary vireo -- Courage of frogs -- Dignity of cockroaches -- Many beings -- Silliest debate -- Tarantula hawk. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
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English. |
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American poetry.
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American poetry. |
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Poetry -- Collections.
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Poetry. |
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Collections.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brewer, Kenneth, 1941-2006. Why dogs stopped flying. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2006 0874216451 (DLC) 2006009803 (OCoLC)65197965 |
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0874215404 (electronic book) |
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9780874215403 (electronic book) |
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0874216451 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780874216455 |
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1283267349 |
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9781283267342 |
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9786613267344 |
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6613267341 |
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