Pursuit / Erica Funkhouser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Funkhouser, Erica.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

87 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Summary:

Erica Funkhouser's fourth book is full of animal and human pursuits: a leaf-cutting bee careens from branch to branch, looking for the right place to nest; a frustrated farmer stalks her garden's invisible predator; a young woman insists on walking the length of a canyon whose river terrifies her; a dying man tries to avoid death long enough to die gracefully. Whether driven by elemental need or sublime desire, the inhabitants of these poems are actively engaged in seeking of every kind -- physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Their very effort animates them. Pursuit is also devoted to the details of living -- what we build, how we eat, our solitary and communal habits, our obsessions, how we amuse ourselves, how we find and endure love, how we survive. In "Mydas Fly," the narrator remarks of an insect sucking nectar, "I have been hunting for an act / this skillful, this unapologetic." As Rosanna Warren wrote of the poems in Funkhouser's previous collection, "They have the feel of experience rescued from the conventional by a great steadiness of regard."

Contents:

Here

Among Lilies

Mole

Harvest Mouse

Tenderness

When She Lies Down at Night

The Chronicle of the Turkey

Passage

Mydas Fly

Woodcock

Quince

Generatrix

Low Tide

Possession

Mailbox

Collecting Hair

Turning Point

My Father's Lunch

To the Animal in the Hole

Still Life with Pewter Pitcher

Love Poem with Harbor View

Proof

Tundra

The Marvels of Insect Life

Cafe de Sol

The Seven Friendships

Cataract Canyon

First Apartment

Oasis

Casualty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Funkhouser, Erica. Pursuit.

ISBN:

9780618171521

0618171525

0618381872

9780618381876

OCLC:

48144418