| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 61 pages). |
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data file rda |
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Poetry |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 59). |
| Contents |
Clearing -- Moment of amazement -- Two dogs, one wise -- Elegy for the science teacher -- Bluefish, 1970 -- Coppice and Pollard -- Yankee barn sale -- Reading music -- Scottish melodies -- Hearing the news -- Whitetail spring -- The black bear inside me -- Theory -- Alex, an obituary -- Hummingbird -- The collection of the canter -- True blue communications man -- Missing -- Security clearance -- The wages of sin -- Ballroom -- At the memorial -- On the Grand Canal -- Provisional ode -- Men as friends -- Semblance -- The broker -- The annual performance review -- Taken into account -- The Barcelona inside me -- Rodeo Ben -- Make it plain -- Where the unfairness of the world resides -- Blast off -- Words with friends -- The fix. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 7, 2018). |
| Summary |
Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family "sacrifices one member, / as plants surrender leaves in times of drought." Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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POETRY -- General.
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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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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780822983279 (electronic book) |
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0822983273 (electronic book) |
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