| Description |
1 online resource |
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Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
I.; La Llorona as Andrea Yates; The Impossible You; Creation Myth (1981); The Monastery & Farm Have Been Sold; Self-Portrait with Headphones On; A Study of You, Grief; Coming Out; Creation Myth; Leaving El Campo, TX; A Body Becomes Less; Departure/Aperture; Wharton, TX; II.; Texas Hurricanes (1980-Present); Elegy Composed of a Thousand Voices in a Bottle; After I Lost You; Creation Myth (1985); Corpus Christi, before Hurricane Ivan; Stiletto; Victoria, TX; La Beautiful Street; Big Bend, TX; Coming Out; A Study of You, Grief; Puberty; Parts of a Flower; III.; Creation Myth (1981) |
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LilacismParts of the Alphabet; Looking at Women; Learning the F Word; A Study of You, Love; Descriptions of his Tongue; Women Go Missing; Sonnet for Jinkx Monsoon; Wharton, TX; Hot Mess; Self-Portrait with Headphones On; IV.; Orgy; La Estrella; Nothing Sticks (2011)-Excerpts; Trying to Anchor You, Father; Reconstructing the Burial from a Few Fragments; La Beautiful Street; Creation Myth; Self-Portrait with Headphones On; Corpus Christi, after Hurricane Ivan; Grief: A Study of You; Elma; Karankawa; I Leave; Origin; Notes; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Karankawa is a collection that explores some of the ways in which we (re)construct our personal histories. Rich in family narratives, myths, and creation stories, these are poems that investigate passage--dying, coming out, transforming, being born--as well as the gaps that also reside in our stories, for, as Rocha suggests, the opportunity to create myths is provided by great silences. Much like the Karankawa Indians whose history works in omissions, Karankawa reconfigures such spaces, engaging with the burden and freedom of memory in order to rework and recontextualize private and public mythologies. First and last, these are poems that honor our griefs and desires, for they keep alive the very things we cannot possess |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2015) |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822981107 |
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0822981106 |
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0822963841 |
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9780822963844 |
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