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Bringing back the bones : new and selected poems / Gary Fincke.

PS3556.I457 A6 2016

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Fincke, Gary, author.
Contributor:: Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
Standardized Title:: Poems. Selections
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: American poetry--21st century.; American poetry.
Genre:: Poetry.
Physical Description:: xi, 268 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:: Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, [2016]
Contents:: The Light: New Poems; Assessing the Dead 17; The Malignancy of Stairs 18; The Accomplishments of Birds 19; The Heart 20; There 22; The Drive-Thru Strip Club 24; Inexplicable 25; The Danger of Yawning 27; Fraternity Brothers, 1970 28; The History of Hair 30; The Chernobyl Swallows 32; Recurrence 33; Lie Still 34; The Mathematics of Ecstasy 35; Six A.M., November 36; The Light 38; From The History of Permanence (2011); The Possibilities for Wings 45; The Etymology of Angels 46; The Serious Surprise of Sorrow 48; After the Aberfan Disaster 50; Selflessness 52; The Dead Girls 53; Things chat Fall from the Sky 56; Meat-Eaters 62; Specificity 63; From Reviving the Dead (2011); Telling the Bees 67; For Good 68; Dust 69; Evaluation 70; Scattering 71; Translating the Hawk 73; From The Fire Landscape (2008); The Anomaly Museum 77; Black Veils 79; The Sorrows 80; The Horns of Guy Lombardo 82; False Dawn 83; White Gloves 84; Like Ours 85; The 1918 House 87; The Pause in the Plummet for Prayer 89; From Standing around the Heart (2005); Standing around the Heart 93; The Eternal Language of the Hands 94; The Buchinger Limbs 95; The Uses of Rain 96; Sweet Things 97; Bringing Back the Bones 98; Anniversary 99; The Weaknesses of the Mouth 100; The History of Silk 101; Headcheese, Liverwurst, a List of Loaves 102; Coughing through the Brambles 104; Miss Hartung Teaches Us the Importance of Fruit 106; Johnny Weismuller Learns the Tarzan Yell 107; The History of SAC 108; In Films, the Army Ants are Always Intelligent 110; From Writing Letters for the Blind (2003); Dragging the Forest 112; The Busy Darkness 115; The Fathers I Could See from my Room 121; What Color Did 122; Marking the Body 124; The Early History of the Submarine 125; Otherwise Healthy 126; The Plagues in Order 127; Birds-of-Paradise 138; How's it Going? 130; The Magpie Evening: A Prayer 132; From Blood Ties (2002); The Tentative Steps of the Obese 135; The Extrapolation Dreams 137; The Donora Geomancy 143; The Great Chain of Being 145; Forecasting the Dragon 157; The Hunza Dream 159; Handing the Self Back 161; Calculating Pi 163; The REM Sleep of Birds 164; Why We Care about Quarks 165; The. Universal Language, of Waiting 166; The Air of Delicate Pastry 168; Enlisting 170; Class A, Salem, The Rookie League 171; The Local Cemetery 173; From The Almanac for Desire (2000); The Dark Angels 177; The Holy Numbers 178; The Natural Method of Dog Training 180; Schmaltz 192; The Terrors 193; The Spiritualists 194; Light Enough to be Lifted 195; From The Technology of Paradise (1998); Hanging the Pigs 199; The Cabinet of Wonders 200; The Doctrine of Signatures 202; The Throne of the Third Heaven of the National Millenium 203; From Inventing Angels (1994); A Murder of Crows 209; The Book of Numbers 210; Inventing Angels 212; The Wonder Children 214; Oxygen 216; The Butterfly Effect 218; The Theories for Ball Lighting 220; The Skill of the Sunlight's Good 221; The Congestive Failure of Belief 222; Every Reachable Feather 224; How to Verify God 225; From The Double Negatives of the Living (1992); Naming the Sky 229; The Flower Remedies 230; The Stuttering Cures 232; Reaching the Deaf 234; Six Kinds of Music, the Wallpaper of Breasts 236; The Double Negatives of the Living 238; From Plant Voices (1991); What the Builders Left 242; Groaning Boards 243; Sleeping with the Leper 245; Bourbon, Red Meat, Salt, Grease 251; Ants 252; Skid Marks 253; The Red Health 255; From The Days of Uncertain Health (1988); The Girl who Breathes through a Hole in her Neck 259; Quagmire 260; Interior 261; Street Cleaning 262; Month of Sundays 263.
Local Notes:: Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
ISBN:: 9781622881116; 1622881117
OCLC:: 933521160
Publisher Number:: 99968026627

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