Fire wheel / Sharmila Voorakkara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voorakkara, Sharmila, 1967-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Akron series in poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

89 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2005.

Summary:

"Collection of original poems by Sharmila Voorakkara"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Tow 1

The Holy Men of Jersey 3

Poem to My Father, Once a Vacuum Cleaner Salesman, Now an Ascetic 5

Tin Man 8

My Suicide Uncles 13

Dogs 16

In a Lost Language 17

Amanuensis 18

Ophelia among the Fish 21

Saint Breakdown 23

Helen of Troy 27

Menelaus 28

Helen Tells All 29

Life with Paris 31

Monologue of the Vanishing Woman 33

Mercy 34

The World's Smallest Woman Speaks 36

Talking to Myself 38

Bread and Cinderella 40

Audrey, the Laundromat Fury, Says 42

His 44

The Orchard's Daughter 46

I Grow Lighter at Night 47

Cleaning 49

Dusk 51

Reflections on Toledo, Black and White Plate, Page 518 in The History of Europe 52

Luck 55

For the Tattooed Man 57

The Beneficence of Spinning Bodies 58

Palmer Method 60

For Herman, Second Grade 61

Mr. Hatpin, Meet Ms. Mannequin 62

Bridgewalker 63

Still Life with Falling Garbage 64

Kicking the Dog 67

They Got All-Nite Muzak Playing at the Strip Mall 70

The Transvestite and His Mother 71

Brother Zero 72

Men in White Suits 73

On Atlantis 74

Freaks 77

Man with Baseball Bat 78

Ditch Music 80

Goat's Head Godhead 81

The Monologues Men Draw 82

Big Sky, Little Man 83

The Flight of the Insurance Men 84

Apology 85

Emissaries from Other Worlds 87

The Last Nickel Dance 88.

ISBN:

1931968209

1931968217

OCLC:

56535163