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Pretenders : poems / by Jeff Friedman.
Van Pelt Library PS3556.R526 .F75 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedman, Jeff.
- Series:
- Carnegie Mellon poetry
- Carnegie Mellon poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Poetry, Modern--21st century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- 1 After the Flood 17
- Galicia 19
- Majesty 20
- Horse 21
- Old Bird 22
- Noah's Last Note 23
- Our Dictator 24
- The Names 26
- The Truth Twice 27
- Brokers 29
- Trust Me 30
- Somebody 32
- Money 34
- The Serpent 36
- Willem of Hands 38
- 2 What I Learned from the Animals 41
- Bear Fight 43
- On Sex 44
- Fiction Assignment 45
- The Y Chromosome 47
- Crossing a Border 49
- Of Chickadees and Chickpeas 51
- Try a Little Tenderness 53
- Family History 54
- About the Nose 55
- Note to Self on Getting Fired 57
- Taking It All Off 59
- Oral Sex, 1969 61
- Trap 62
- Judges 63
- 3 Clearing the Roof 67
- It's Blue 69
- Spreading the Son 71
- Day of Atonement 72
- Hawk in the Wood 74
- How Empires Fall 76
- The Great Man 78
- Failure 79
- Last Call 80
- Wait 81
- Sitting Shiva 82
- Wine 83
- Tea 84
- Regret 85
- Dusk 87
- Rat in the Closet 88
- Wheels on Fire 89
- 4 Salt 93
- Good News 94
- Follow Your Bliss 96
- Pill 98
- A Word About My Famous Mentor 99
- 5 Brothers... 101
- Snapping Turtle 102
- Story of the World 104
- Innocence 106
- Outage 108
- Old Friends 109
- Pretenders 111
- Not Babs 113
- Flurry 115
- About the Ears 116
- Good Sense 118
- Breaking the Fast 119
- Philanthropist 121
- First Snow 123
- Crow 125
- Give It Up 126.
- ISBN:
- 9780887485794
- 0887485790
- OCLC:
- 862788093
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