Rough knowledge : poems / Christine Poreba.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poreba, Christine, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 72 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tallahassee, Florida : Anhinga Press, 2016.

Contents:

Part 1. Toward home ; Balcony ; Courting, Paynes Prairie ; Flight ; Silent elegy ; Leaving New York ; A kind of singing ; The pace of things ; A year in weather ; In nothing less than one whole second ; This morning ; On forgetting you might need a ride ; Before marriage dream and waking ; The Thorne rooms ; Rebuilding a house ; Model airplane, late July ; Before marriage dream ; Symphony in the brain ; Rootwork ; A short treatise on loss ; The turn ; Diary of a garden without you ; City of doors ; Discovery at the World Trade Center site

Part 2. A short history of leavening ; What you don't want to know ; Between missing and found ; Staying afloat at 37,000 feet ; Woman in a dream ; A sudden dark ; Becoming one of them ; Entry ; Even in clear air ; First garden ; Through elements ; A knob, a post, a scattering ; We are passing over ; Apartment ; Early note ; Through a new window ; Monsoon in Maine ; Remodeling ; Alight ; Poem of lost lines ; To walk a familiar route in reverse ; Unplotted ; Last breath.

Notes:

Poems.

Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, 2014

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781934695470

1934695475

OCLC:

943601106

Publisher Number:

99970857655