| Description |
x, 77 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A Karen and Michael Braziller book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 77). |
| Contents |
About the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry -- Acknowledgments -- I. Vital signs -- Premises -- Until the heavens ring -- Last of the month -- You aren't sure & I may not -- Upper Peninsula -- Ways to hunt deer -- Rules of the game -- Physical education -- Not in the same way again -- Apparition -- Your guess is as good as mine -- Weight training -- Varsity athletics -- II. Lacustrine -- My dead grandfather -- Superior -- Streak -- Small traffic -- After winter -- Spitshine -- Menstrual -- What ails you -- III. Flight path -- Aurora -- Against contentment -- Sarracenia, Purpurea -- Birches -- Fall color -- Notes. |
| Summary |
Winner of the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, a tender portrait of a queer girlhood on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In this lyrical and unflinching debut, a landscape of staggering beauty abuts industrial towns in the throes of economic decay. Emily Van Kley explores notions of home, estrangement, isolation, and longing against a backdrop of crystalline winters, Lake Superior's mythic tempers, and forests as vast as they are close. |
| Awards |
Lexi Rudnitsky first book prize in poetry, 2017. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780892554881 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0892554886 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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