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Meteoric flowers / Elizabeth Willis.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.I456523 M47 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willis, Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Wesleyan poetry
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition.
- Contents:
- Sympathetic Inks
- Her Mossy Couch
- The Great Egg of Night
- The Steam Engine
- The Nettle
- Of the Gulf Stream
- A Description of the Poison Tree
- Grateful as Asparagus
- The Oldest Part of the Earth
- This Circumstance is Worth Further Attention
- Devil Bush
- Glittering Shafts of War
- Verses Omitted
- On the Resemblance of Some Flowers to Insects
- The Principal Catastrophe
- Irritative Fevers
- The Skirt of Night
- Of Which I Shall Have Occasion to Speak Again
- The Happiest of Poets
- Diana's Trees
- Her Bright Career
- Phosphorescent Trains
- Expiring Groans
- The Most Powerful Machine in the World
- Plants Possess a Voluntary Power of Motion
- Buds and Bulbs
- Verses Omitted by Mistake
- Pictures Connected by a Slight Festoon of Ribbons
- The Portland Vase
- Oil and Water
- Rosicrucian Machinery
- Tiptoe Lightining
- With New Prolific Power
- Viewless Floods of Heat
- The Ghost of Hamlet
- Near and More Near
- Hercules Conquers Achelous
- Departure of the Nymphs Like Northern Nations Skating on the Ice
- Bright O'er the Floor
- Solar Volcanos
- Errata
- Loud Cracks from Ice Mountains Explained
- Why No New Planets are Ejected from the Sun
- Ancient Subterranean Fires
- Immortal Sire
- Plundering Honey
- A Bird of Our Country
- One Great TIde
- Fuel of the Lower People
- In Flowers Concealed
- Accidental Breezes
- The Earth's Nucleus
- Primeval Islands
- Ferns, Mosses, Flags.
- ISBN:
- 0819568139
- OCLC:
- 62393165
- Publisher Number:
- 9780819568137
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