| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 173 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"This is a Borzoi Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Made in Detroit -- Made in Detroit -- The frontroom -- Detroit, February 1943 -- Things that will never happen here again -- Detroit fauna -- Family vacation to Yellowstone -- The rented lakes of my childhood -- Thirteen -- She held forth -- The scent of apple cake -- By the river of Detroit -- The street that was -- City bleeding -- Mehitabel and me -- What my mother gave me -- Our neverending entanglement -- Ashes in their places -- II. Ignorance bigger than the moon -- January orders -- We have come through -- How I gained respect for night herons -- Remnants still visible -- The constant exchange -- May opens wide -- Wisteria can pull down a house -- June 15th, 8 pagesm. -- Hard rain and potent thunder -- Ignorance bigger than the moon -- Little house with no door -- There were no mountains in Detroit (haibun) -- But soon there will be none -- Missing, missed -- Death's charmingface -- The frost moon -- December arrives like an unpaid bill -- part III. The poor are no longer with us -- The suicide of dolphins -- The poor are no longer with us -- Don't send dead flowers -- A hundred years since the Triangle Fire -- Ethicsfor Republicans -- Another obituary -- What it means -- How have the mighty ... -- We know -- The passion of a fan -- In pieces -- Ghosts -- One of the expendables -- Let's meet in a restaurant -- My time in better dresses -- Come fly without me -- These bills are long unpaid -- Hope is a long, slow thing -- part IV. Working at it -- The late year -- Erev New Years -- Head of the year -- May the new year continue our joy -- Late that afternoon they come -- N'eilah -- The wall of cold descends -- How she learned -- Working at it -- The order of the seder -- The two cities -- Where silence waits -- I say Kaddish but still mourn -- part V. That was Cobb Farm -- Little diurnal tragedies -- The next evolutionary step -- That was Cobb Farm -- They meet -- A cigarette left smoldering -- Discovery motion -- Sun in January -- Little rabbit's dream song -- Different voices, one sentence -- Cotton's wife -- That summer day -- Insomniac prayer at 2 a.m. -- The body in the hot tub -- Looking back in utter confusion -- Why did the palace of excess have cockroaches? -- Iri the Peloponnesus one April afternoon -- The end not yet in sight -- Loving clandestinely -- The visible and the in- -- What's left -- Corner of Putnam and Pearl -- Bang, crash over -- Sins of omission -- Even if we try not to let go -- Afterward -- The wonder of it -- Marinade for an elderly rabbit -- Contemplating my breasts -- Words hard as stones -- Absence wears out the heart -- A republic of cats -- What do they expect? -- Decades of intimacy creating -- We used to be close, I said -- A wind suddenly chills you -- Why she frightens me -- My sweetness, my desire -- They come, they go in the space of a breath -- In storms I can hear the surf a mile away. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
|
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
|
| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780385353885 (hardcover) |
|
038535388X (hardcover) |
|
9780385353892 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40024730298 |
|
