| Description |
1 online resource (82 pages). |
| Series |
Winner of the Iowa poetry prize |
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Iowa poetry prize.
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| Contents |
I: Clearing the yard -- Aquatic -- What's discovered is wiped out -- Vigilance -- What closes -- Wave factor -- Sketch -- Any good scientist could tell you -- Clockwork -- Send word to the glue factory -- A chameleon -- II: Tongues -- Ventriloquized bodies -- The toy divine(s) -- Pigskin -- Insulation -- The dandelions went -- Conduct -- Three constructions -- Lives of astrologers -- Hot air -- Conniption fit -- At the sushi arcade -- Raw goods inventory -- III: Hanging out the wash -- A sorry concept, that town -- Dzien dobry -- In the land of sleeping people -- Entry -- Sleeping bear dunes -- Before surgery -- Episodes -- Bundle -- Pall -- Telluric -- Sanctuary -- IV: Spare -- An opening onto -- Spectrum -- Elephant -- Less art, more monkeys -- Resort -- Glossitic -- Our lady of appearances -- Blind feel -- Occasionally she, you -- Slip -- Measures -- Deduction -- Even before your elbow knocked over the glass. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Awards |
Iowa poetry prize |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
In Raw Goods Inventory, Emily Rosko gives us a poetic inventory in a virtuosic display of voices and accents. The poems come with sharp elbows and knees; they are nomadic, acquisitive, dispersive, and diffractive. More elementally, Rosko's poems contain the scattered bric-a-brac of the imagination, with goods that range from a dud egg to genetic hybrids, from Marian iconography to pigs at a state fair. She offers honest embodiments of anxiety, awkwardness, and boredom, as she also recasts with wit and grace the standard poetic fare: love, death, and disappointment. Idiomatic, raw, and skewed i. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American literature.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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POETRY -- General.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosko, Emily, 1979- Raw goods inventory. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005053862 (OCoLC)61362241 |
| ISBN |
9781587296741 (electronic bk.) |
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1587296748 (electronic bk.) |
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