American flamingo / Greg Pape.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pape, Greg, 1947-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Language:

English

Physical Description:

ix, 89 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Taking its title from an Audubon painting, "American Flamingo" shares with the artist an exquisite attention to detail and the suggestion of a larger sense of time and place through depictions of the intimate interactions between creatures and their habitats. In his fifth collection of poetry, Greg Pape melds memorable images from the natural world with the drama of ordinary experience to capture small transformations of human character in American settings from Arizona's Sonora Desert to the icy streets of Washington, D.C. Through elegies, character sketches, and lyric and narrative evocations of family and place, Pape offers lucid and startling poems that bridge the spaces between the past and the present, men and women, and urban and rural landscapes.

Contents:

Image on a Sandstone Disc 3

1 First Hour 7

The River Comes Closer 8

Remember the Moose 9

Snow Storm 12

Fishing Party, 1890s 14

The Ani 15

Practice 16

Bitterroot Car-Body Riprap 18

Album 19

Idling 30

The Oldest Thing 32

A Pair of Mallards 33

Animals 34

2 Elegy for the Duke of Earl 41

Amaryllis 48

Morphine 49

As Sparks Fly Upward 50

Blossom 51

Red Sweatshirt with Embroidered Wave 53

Fireworks 54

On the Road 55

Indian River 56

Lamp Without a Shade 57

Green 59

Unfinished Story 61

3 We Are 67

Zahkia 68

The Hog Boss 70

Small Pleasures 72

Derailed Train 74

The Rose 77

American Flamingo 79

Blues on the 4th of July 81

Kindness of Strangers 83

Keet Seel 86.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 89).

ISBN:

0809326213

0809326221

OCLC:

56617286