Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 PDF (x, 80 pages))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0822963175
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0822980231
,
1322096376
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9780822963172
,
9780822980230
,
9781322096377
Series Statement:
Pitt poetry series
Content:
Winner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Best Bones is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the house struggle against the family roles and social identities that they must wear like heavy garments-mother, father, wife, husband, sister, brother, servant, and master. All these voices crave unification; they want to join themselves into one whole sentient being, into "a mansion steering itself." The poems in Best Bones also explore the experience of living in a physical body, and how the natural world intersects with manmade landscapes and technologies. In it, mother has a reset button, servants blend into the furniture, and a doctor patiently oversees the pregnancy of the earth. In these poems, the body is a working machine, a repository of childhood myth and archetype, and a window to the spiritual world. The poems strive to be visceral on the level of dream, or of a story that is half remembered and half fabricated
Content:
Fable -- Part 1 -- Still Birth -- Temporary River -- Remarks on the Morning's Work in Winter -- The Wife -- The Mistress -- A Bathing Gown a Girl Can Make -- The Only House in the Neighborhood -- The Lord Is Risen Indeed -- Sisters -- White Sheep. White Cloud. -- Gentle Doctor -- 1917 -- Part 2 -- Exhumation -- My Grandmother's Belongings -- Mary -- To My Daughter -- Surrogate -- Instructions for Marriage by Capture -- Wallflower -- Instructions for Marriage by Service -- By Jove -- Our Furry Friends -- The Performance -- Letter from a New England Girl -- Charmed -- Your Server for This Evening -- Laying the Cloth, Et Cetera -- Employment -- Blackfly -- Possible Names for a Country House -- August Postcard -- My Dearest Doll -- Remembering Your Young Love -- Part 3 -- Gaikotsu -- Love Poem -- Kids These Days -- Tending the Flocks (England, 1790) -- Prion -- Don't -- The Best Bones -- Home -- Pajamas -- Ophelia -- The Artist's Boy -- The New Family -- About the Hammer -- The Monastery -- Calendar -- When You Are Dead -- Blue Whale -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
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Language:
English
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