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The tornado is the world / Catherine Pierce.
Van Pelt Library PS3616.I347 A6 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierce, Catherine, 1978- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tornadoes--Poetry.
- Tornadoes.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 75 pages ; 19 cm
- Distribution:
- Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England.
- Place of Publication:
- Ardmore, PA : Saturnalia Books, [2016]
- Contents:
- I
- Disaster Work 1
- On the Worst Days of the Fever 3
- In Which I Am Famous 5
- Imaginary Vacation Scenario #1 7
- What the Hour Before the Tornado Feels Like 8
- Heroines 9
- Beach Town 10
- I Used to Be Able to Listen to Sad Songs 12
- Lesson 13
- Imaginary Vacation Scenario #2 15
- "Rare Winter Tornadoes Sweep Through South" 16
- The Unabashed Tourist Brings Her Lover to the French Quarter 17
- The Unabashed Tourist Talks With a Skee-Ball Proprietor in Ocean City, MD 18
- The Unabashed Tourist Meets a Man at a Bar Outside Reno 19
- The Unabashed Tourist Chats with Diner Patrons in Tennessee While Waiting Out a Tornado Warning 20
- II
- The Tornado Is Sick of This Life as a Novelty 25
- The Tornado Knows Itself 27
- The Tornado Collects the Animals 29
- The Tornado Visits the Town 30
- The Mother Warns the Tornado 32
- Holy Shit 34
- The Dog Greets the Tornado 36
- The Teenager Watches the Tornado in Her Rearview 37
- On the Origins of the Tornado 38
- The Mother Hears the Tornado Sirens Stop 40
- The Aftermath 41
- The Checkout Clerk Considers Leaving 43
- The Aftermath (2) 45
- What the Tornado Hears All the Time 46
- The Mother, Three Months Later 47
- The Town Dreams the Tornado Apologizes 48
- Where the Tornado Will Go Next 49
- III
- Ocean Block 53
- An Apologia for Taking Things for Granted 54
- Imaginary Vacation Scenario #3 56
- I Will Outrun My Own Linearity 58
- Horseshoe Crab 59
- Alongside 61
- Alleys 63
- Relevant Details 65
- Imaginary Vacation Scenario #4 67
- Get Out 68
- True Story 70
- The Hawk 71.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780996220668
- 0996220666
- OCLC:
- 945648883
- Publisher Number:
- 99970190269
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