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Nomenclature of small things / Lynn Pedersen.
Van Pelt Library PS3616 .E347 N66 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pedersen, Lynn, author.
- Series:
- Carnegie Mellon poetry
- Carnegie Mellon poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 78 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Here are poems quietly wise, beautiful, beguiling, and enriched by the peculiarities and spectacularities of science. Guiding them is a poet tough-skinned by tenderhearted. In giving accounts of a wide array of ALIVE-in-our-world, Lynn Pedersen's poems shimmer. And among the multitudes of creatures, wwe find grief to be but another animal "that can depart and return with a soft shudder of feathers." These are poems to save and/or devour." --Nance Van Winckel.
- Contents:
- Catalog I. The infinite density of grief
- The birth of superstition
- Nomenclature: the first day
- Miscarriage
- Eve paints the apple trees
- The sterility of numbers
- How to speak nineteenth century
- A catalog of what we're not meant to see
- The rift
- Isaac Newton waits out the plague
- Wilson's warbler
- The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean by Federic Remington (1896)
- How to move away
- Something about Darwin ; Catalog II. Begin
- After seven months, Alaskans begin to bury their dead
- A brief history of the passenger pigeon
- Pre-Op
- Taxonomy:taxidermy
- Correction
- Platypus:Hoax
- Decay
- Found poem: Sir Hamon L'Estrange gives the only documented account of a living dodo in Britain, 1638
- What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain
- Pond
- Hangman
- I hate Darwin
- Horse latitudes
- Grief and geometry
- Primer
- What is still, what is moving ; Catalog III. The classification of impermanence
- The second son
- Braids
- Ballast
- Stil life
- My grandmother peels apples for sauce
- Why we speak English
- The quick of things
- Selling skies at the Soho Bazaar, 1790
- At forty
- Darwin's twin sister
- Sugar in space
- On reading about the illness and death of Darwin's daughter Annie
- A way with words
- Dickinsonia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).
- ISBN:
- 0887486096
- 9780887486098
- OCLC:
- 923650116
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