| Description |
1 online resource (135 pages) |
| Series |
Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series |
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Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series.
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| Contents |
Field of diamons in the sky -- Love & death -- History -- Rave on -- American thrush : search and rescue -- Bay Street -- Astral tryst -- The coroner in the grove -- My uncle's three thousand photographs of Point Dume -- Nothing here really happened but everything here is true -- How I made my money -- A coming of age story part II -- Tease -- Your baby ain't sweet like mine -- Shahid -- When you burn you become euphoric -- American thrush : I want to do it right now -- Flirt -- Instructions for checking the surf at Scorpion Bay -- Omens -- There's no reason to be weird -- Ocean Park #79 -- Amber & embers -- The cruelest jokes have no punch lines -- East Bay -- Somewhere north of here Picasso painted something -- Giovanna -- A coleridge shark dog good-bye sone -- Main st. -- Holoholo -- Exploding Ghazal -- Suburban -- Flea -- Bass Lake -- For .. |
| Summary |
In this stunning first collection of poems, Noah Blaustein's narrators face the complexities that shape a life: adolescence, fatherhood, our responsibility for the lives of others, the exhilaration of romantic love, and memory. These anxious, frequently witty poems flirt with physical danger, with grief and happiness, and with mortality as a means to transcend the mundane in our day-to-day lives. As the parent narrator says at the end of "Rave On": "This / life of mine I now know / is no longer mine to take away." While the narrator believes that there's no person "that doesn't benefit from s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry
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Lyrik
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Amerikanisches Englisch
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013011564 |
| ISBN |
9780826353832 |
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0826353835 |
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0826353843 |
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9780826353849 |
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