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Author Ponsot, Marie.

Title The bird catcher : poems / by Marie Ponsot.

Publication Info. New York : Knopf, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  811 PON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  811 PON    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  811.54 PONSOT    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  811.54 PON    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description vi, 91 pages ; 22 cm
Gender group Women lcsh
Summary A collection of poems by a New York writer. In Reminder, she writes: "I am rich I am poor. Time is all I own. / I spend or hoard it for experience. / By the bitten wound the biting tooth is known."
Form Also issued online.
Contents To the muse of doorways edges verges -- "I've been around: it gets me nowhere." -- Restoring my house -- "Trois petits tours et Puis ..." -- Old Mama Saturday -- Northampton style -- Incomparable assumptions -- The title's last -- Gradual -- One is one -- Pourriture noble -- For my old self, at Notre-Dame -- The border -- Separate, in the swim -- The story after the story -- Living room -- After the pastoral -- Autumn clean-up -- Roundstone Cove -- Non-vegetarian -- Unplugged -- Better -- Reminder -- We are imagined.
The split image of attention -- Reading a large serving dish -- Skimming raw folk material -- Analysis -- Birthday -- Endoxa, or, reputable opinions -- Around a beautiful theory -- Two questions -- A determined present -- Movers and shakers -- In favor of good dreams -- Pre-text -- For Djuna Barnes as Julie Ryder -- Taking thought -- Explorers cry out unheard -- Winter -- All wet -- Snap shots -- Underbutter -- Persephone, packing -- Festival of Bread -- Full moon, unstressed measures -- Oceans -- Foreign correspondent -- Against the dark, new poets rise -- What the worn rhymes found -- Climbing in Big Bend National Park -- Even.
Subject American poetry -- Women authors.
Women -- United States -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807417
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Other Form: Online version: Ponsot, Marie. Bird catcher. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1998 (OCoLC)605139172
ISBN 0375401350
9780375401350
037570132X (pbk.)
9780375701320 (pbk.)
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