Burn the field : poems / by Amy Beeder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeder, Amy, 1964-

Series:

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Cockfights, a prophetic turnip, the "pharmack mysteries" of antidepressants . . . in this book the natural world looms as a potent and nearly conscious force: sacred, occasionally malicious, a visceral metaphor for desire, transcendence and loss.The power in these poems comes from a persistently idiosyncratic combination of subject, language and tone: the dark emotion energy of the subjects -- illness, witch trials, lost children -- the lush, urgent language, and the exacting, wry, relentlessly unsentimental tone.

Contents:

The Deadly Poppy Field 9

Cabezon 10

Photograph in a Montana Bar 11

From Vacant Lots, Flowers ... 12

Humbug 13

Rooster Shadow 14

Cotton & Turnip 15

Again, the Donkey 16

Train 18

Scent 20

Hangman 21

Photo of Pasteur 22

On Two Paintings / Narcisse Virgil Diaz de la Pena 23

Varicose 25

Vertigo 26

Gunslinger 28

On Preferring Red or Black Dates 29

Zuckerman's Daughter 33

Sonnet for an Early Thaw 35

Mother as a House 36

Croup 38

The Cockfight 39

Fever 40

Two Poems after Ovid 41

Yellow Dress 43

Cured 44

Western City 45

Botany Notes 47

No Child Will Choose It 48

Last Photo 49

Drowning in Bosporus 50

Gossip 53

The Shoes 54

Garden of Meats 55

What Children do in the Ravine 57

Wrought 58

Market 61

Blanca 62

Frozen Charlotte 63

The Body's Luck 65

Mumbletypeg 67

Lost Jockey 68.

ISBN:

0887484484

OCLC:

67519560

Publisher Number:

9780887484483