| Description |
vii, 73 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Self-portrait as scallop -- When I am six -- On listening to your teacher take attendance -- The origin of feathers on my windshield -- Sea church -- Mr. Cass and the crustaceans -- Penguin Valentine -- from The Rambutan Notebooks -- Two moths -- In praise of my manicure -- End-of-Summer Haibun -- When Lucille Bogan sings "Shave 'em dry" -- The two times I loved you the most on a farm -- Aubade with cutlery and crickets -- When you select the daughter card -- At the pumpkin festival my lips burn bright -- Self-portrait as Niagara Falls in Winter -- Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate one second before waking up -- The falling: four who have intentionally plunged over Niagara Falls with the hope of surviving -- Forsythe Avenue Haibun -- Meals of grief & happiness -- Invitation -- Inside the cloud forest dome -- I could be a whale shark -- Love in the time of swine flu -- Self-portrait as C-section scar -- The cockroach responds -- Andromache begs Hector to reconsider -- When I'm away from you, I feel like the second-place winner in a bee-wearing contest -- In the museum of glass flowers -- Dangerous -- Travel Mommy Ghazal -- Flowers at the Taj Mahal -- While riding an elephant, I think of unicorns -- Self-portrait as an egg-tempera illuminated manuscript from 1352 -- Letter to the Northern Lights -- Perch bones and apple aubade -- This sugar -- Too many cooks spoil the broth -- Psyche & Cupid: a reimagining -- Venus instructing Cupid to torment Psyche -- Psyche considers her last letter from Cupid -- Upon hearing the news you buried our dog -- The body -- The pepper kingdom -- One-star reviews of the Taj Mahal -- First time on the funicular -- One-star reviews of the Great Wall of China -- The pepper king returns -- Starfish and coffee -- Naming the heartbeats -- Chess -- My south -- Bengal tiger. |
| Summary |
In her fourth collection of poetry, Nezhukumatathil writes a love song to the earth and its inhabitants. Oceanic is both a title and an ethos of radical inclusion, studying forms of love as diverse and abundant as the ocean itself and speaking to the reader as a cooperative part of the earth, an extraordinary neighborhood to which we all belong. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
1556595263 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781556595264 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40028196773 |
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