Rookery /

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Author / Creator:Brimhall, Traci, 1982-
Imprint:Carbondale, Ill. : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 79 pages)
Language:English
Series:Crab Orchard series in poetry
Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
Subject:
American poetry -- 21st century.
American poetry.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258287
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ISBN:9780809385799
0809385791
1280697954
9781280697951
9780809329977
0809329972
Notes:Print version record.
Summary:Traveling to the most intimate extremes of the human heart Fraught with madness, brutality, and ecstasy, Traci Brimhall's Rookery delves into the darkest and most remote corners of the human experience. From the graveyards and battlefields of the Civil War to the ancient forests of Brazil, from desire to despair, landscapes both literal and emotional are traversed in this unforgettable collection of poems. Brimhall guides readers through ever-winding mazes of heartbreak and treachery, and the euphoric dreams of missionaries. The end of days, the intoxication of.
Other form:Print version: Brimhall, Traci, 1982- Rookery. Carbondale, Ill. : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2010 9780809329977
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prayer for Deeper Water; 1. (n) Colony of rooks; Aubade with a Broken Neck; Aubade with a Fox and a Birthmark; Dueling Sonnets on the Railroad Tracks; Aubade in Which the Bats Tried to Warn Me; Aubade in Which I Untangle Her Hair; Oneiromancy; Aubade with a Panic of Hearts; Regret with Wildflowers; Concerning Cuttlefish and Ugolino; Appalachian Aubade; Restoration of the Saints; Noli Me Tangere; Requiem with Coal, Butterflies, and Terrible Angels; 2. (n) A breeding place; Fiat Lux.
  • Elegy with Mosquitoes, Peppermints, and a Snapping TurtleThe Summer after They Crashed and Drowned; Discipline with Lines from First Corinthians; To the Tall Stranger Who Kept His Hands in His Pockets, Fourteen Years Later; The Bullet Collector; Chastity Belt Lesson; On a Mission Trip to Philadelphia I Begin to Fear the Inside of My Body; Missionary Child; Possession; Glossolalia; Why He Leaves; Echolalia, Saint Armands Key; Leviathan: A Rapture; Through a Glass Darkly; Prayer for Sunlight and Hunger; 3. (n) A crowded tenement house; Ars Poetica; Nocturne with Clay Horses; Via Dolorosa.
  • FallingThe Saints Go Marching; Battle Hymn; Falling; At a Party on Ellis Island, Watching Fireworks; The Women Are Ordered to Clear the Bodies of Suitors Slain by Ulysses; Dressing Heads; Margaret Garner Explains It to Her Daughter; A Dead Woman Speaks to Her Resurrectionist; The Light in the Basement; Come Back to Me; American Pastoral; Kingdom Come; Nocturne with Oil Rigs and Jasmine; Prayer to Delay the Apocalypse; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover.

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