| Description |
1 online resource (134 pages) |
| Series |
Texas poets series ; no. 3 |
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Texas poets series ; no. 3.
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| Contents |
The drowning heart : Fairy tale -- First marriage -- Fire prevention week -- The astrologer consults his chart -- Tree history -- Without a paddle -- Some contradictory lessons in physics -- Mischance -- Harold's wife -- Aqua vitae -- Adultery in the retirement village -- In the casino at Circus Circus -- Singles bar at the Ramada -- Electricity -- Civil defense -- Pickings -- He drinks to forget -- On the movements of women -- Insider trading -- A love sonnet for Impressionists -- Fear of flatworms -- The bathers -- Childless women -- Assassins at the intersections : Strike at salmon time -- Lunch at the sushi bar -- In our city -- A personal history of atoms -- Chocolate -- Arrest -- Graffitists -- The insomniac's mirror -- Grief -- Bon voyage -- The penultimate Mohican -- Debating the designated Hitler -- The soloist speaks his piece -- Uptown -- The song of the iron lung -- Cinquains : cyclops and cheats -- Fire dream -- Cursing the photos -- Father -- Tabloid -- Spring eclipse -- Supermarket -- Soup to nuts -- The mass grave of the allosaurs : Dinosaur National Monument -- When the continent divided -- The mass grave of the allosaurs -- Snake jar -- Flint -- Winter flight -- Death by windstorm -- First shot -- Living without gas : Forgiving the debtor -- Water Canyon Lodge -- Workout -- The fourth amendment interscholastic wild west poetry riding competition -- Lost in the divorce -- Familiar ground -- Desperado at McDonald's -- Piano lesson -- Aeneas visits the metroplex -- How the Big Thicket got smaller -- Motel on the San Augustine plains -- Woke up dead -- Postcards from Alaska -- Margarita -- Waltzing the arroyos -- Long lines -- New Year's Day, Bosque del Apache Refuge -- Seed -- Leap Year Day in a bad town -- For a Texas beauty -- Province of bone : Negative -- Where are the extraterrestrials hiding? -- Geeks -- The gravedigger goes to work -- Afraid of the dark -- Nighttime in the House of God -- Adam and Eve -- With roux my shrimp is laden -- Oral, he said -- Reason -- Long distance -- Households -- Under the double helix -- Bible lesson -- Yacht brokers -- This place for instance : Bread and water -- Counting the commandments -- Farm photo, 1955 -- Coming to the road -- The Jacksons -- Granny said -- The old farmer's complaint -- The J.P. -- From the Opry -- The millhand's inheritance -- Carol Jean Simmons talks about neighbors -- The postman's pension -- American gothic -- The cheese stands alone -- Ne plus ultra |
| Summary |
Annotation Bradley takes the subjects of modern living--marriage, Fire Prevention Week, divorce, singles and sushi bars, the supermarket, McDonald's, and even adultery in the retirement village--and shows them to be the stuff of which miniature tragedies are made. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Poetry
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Poetry -- Collections.
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poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Collections
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
91008955 |
| ISBN |
0585279292 |
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9780585279299 |
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