So many moving parts / Tiffany Atkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, Tiffany, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

60 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Tarset, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2014.

Summary:

So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson's third collection, is an eccentric 21st-century meditation on the awkwardness of body and spirit and their unexpected, often unwanted intrusions into the business of everyday life. Lyrical and experimental by turns, these poems push familiar events - commuting, telephones, babysitting, foreign travel - to open out toward unanswerable questions and elemental connections with an unstable physical world. A cast of real people observed over a year reveal momentary dramas as in a series of sketches, and the poet turns an ironic, unflinching eye on her own generation's transition from youth to middle age. Bold, wishful, ambivalent, sometimes even grudgingly affectionate, the collection is a spiky celebration of the almost invisible revelations that insist when you only look closely enough. Book jacket.

Contents:

Nightrunning 11

Two parts of rain 12

Farm Sale, Tregaron 14

Animal Truck 15

Two moments in white 16

( 17

Hex 18

Diggers 19

Match day 20

The Starling Cloud 21

La poulette grise 22

Guts 24

A Film of Gannets 26

Havisham 27

Barstool, by Michael Warren 28

Solar 29

Crystal 30

Beachcombing 31

Boy with Red Umbrella 32

Girl with Blue Towel 33

Avdimou 34

Woman with Paperback Romance 35

Roaming 36

The hands of flight attendants 38

Media luna 39

Plumbing 40

Old gold ring trick 41

Nose 42

First communion 43

Paternoster 44

Ear worm 46

Mother, 47

8 Mühlenberg Weg 48

Female Reproductive System 50

Male Reproductive System 51

Choose 52

On driving 53

Five-finger exercise 54

On crying 55

Phallus Impudicus 56

Mantra 58.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

1852249528

9781852249526

OCLC:

858899523

Publisher Number:

99963033523