| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 75 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents |
Dash It -- Mornings Like This -- The Handy Boy -- The Pathfinder of the Seas -- The Sign of Your Father -- An Acquaintance in the Heavens -- I Am Trying to Get at Something Utterly Heartbroken -- The Hunter -- Observations and Experiments -- The Child in Spring -- Class Notes on Painting and the Arts -- Mayakovsky in New York -- Light in the Open Air -- Stars -- Junior High School English -- Signals at Sea -- Emergencies -- A Letter to Theo -- Language for Everyone -- The Old Masters -- Otherwise It Would Be Too Confusing -- A Visit to the Mayo Clinic -- We Already Know You Like Baseball -- The Muse and the Poet -- The Graduate Student: Aspects of the Tongue -- A Natural History of Getting Through the Year -- A View of Certain Wonderful Effects -- Getting Started -- From a Letter Home -- Learning to Fear Watercolor -- Index of First Lines -- I Think Continually of Those Who Went Truly Ape -- Building a Tree House -- Attempt to Move -- How to Make a Visit to The Netherlands. |
| Summary |
In Mornings Like This Annie Dillard has given us a witty and moving collection of poems in a wholly original form. Extracting and rearranging sentences from old or odd books, she has composed ironic poems - some serious, some light - on poetry's most heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. This is a unique variation on the found-poem form. It enables the poet "to dig deep with a shallow tool." Dillard's characteristic voice sounds throughout. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dillard, Annie. Mornings like this. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©1995 (OCoLC)608672740 |
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Online version: Dillard, Annie. Mornings like this. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©1995 (OCoLC)624346497 |
| ISBN |
0060171553 |
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9780060171551 |
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