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Carnival life : poems / Lesley Dauer.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.A843 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dauer, Lesley, 1966- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 55 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Georgia. : Mercer University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Each poem in the award-winning collection represents the life of a carnival performer or that of an outsider whose life is rife with carnival metaphor.
- Contents:
- [Part] I. Circus
- Lost dogs
- Fat lady
- Hoopla love
- Involuntary aerialist
- Public gestures come undone
- Contemporary county fair
- Tamer's lion
- Circus train wreck near Potsdam, NY 1893
- Circus at the epicenter (New Richmond tornado, 1899)
- Tightrope walker
- Night watchman
- Moscow circus
- Motorcycle doppelgangers
- Sad clown's young sister
- Big top divinity
- [Part] II. Advice for the potential svengali
- Shrinking lady
- Illusionist's mom
- Tunnel of love
- High wire ornithology
- Introvert performer
- Twelve ballerinas
- Two-headed woman and the two-faced man
- Hothouse
- Lonely illusionist
- Human cannonball
- Home
- Did you mate for life?
- Goodbye, said Bess
- [Part] III. Harlow's monkeys
- Rampage
- Tiger
- Ventriloquist's dummy
- It's an ugly thing
- Carnival diagnostics
- Performances
- Real contortionist
- Human curiosities
- Sword swallower
- Fire eater
- Ticket-taker's fingers
- It's ironic to the lioness
- Thin man
- Conductor's dream.
- Notes:
- Adrienne Bond Poetry Award, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780881465716
- 0881465712
- OCLC:
- 936219492
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