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What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes? : poems / Arlene Kim.
LIBRA PS3611.I4529 W47 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, Arlene.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, [2011]
- Contents:
- i. "Boil her down to bone"
- Rot
- Spindle
- One of us
- The scar
- Bird call
- Rib
- ii. "My jug all in bits"
- Needle
- Reasons we left
- Answers to the Proust questionnaire
- Season of frogs
- Hollow tongue
- I'm sorry, father, for losing the key
- Spool, book, coin
- Verna
- Once, I held time
- Exhibit A: archive
- iii. "There is bad in the wood"
- Wilderness
- Translation plundered
- Tiger-brother
- Release, catch
- What lies in the rest of the wood
- Before the fires
- Rabbit song
- Tracking
- The squirrel
- When thunder, then what
- iv. "There ... voices"
- Wind
- Paper suns
- Turtle-sister
- Litany for common horses (a fallen sonnet)
- No gondolier
- Echo
- v. "Sister, I think we've lost the way"
- North was not the way
- The collecting
- Among monarchs
- Song
- Mountains
- Wolf-fruit, rind
- Curse
- vi. "Show me once more how it goes"
- Occupation
- "the path come apart"
- Legend
- Hunt, peck
- The cutting.
- Notes:
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781571314406
- 1571314407
- OCLC:
- 692288814
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