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Circles where the head should be : poems / by Caki Wilkinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, Caki, 1980-
- Series:
- Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 18.
- Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (83 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010. The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps. Circles Where the Head Should Be has its own distinctive voice, a lively intelligence, insatiable curiosity, and a decided command of form. These qualities play off one another in ways that instruct and delight. An irresistible book."--J. D. McClatchy, author of Mercury Dressing: Poems, judge Storm and Stress That a spider web supports a bead of rain is as significant as rain's resolve, poised where some spinneret has pitched its threads aslant, since, held or holding, each endures a strain-- one presses, one reacts. Don't ask me what it's worth. Despite the facts of matter's favored states, such concentration's of no consequence beyond this life, a net tailored to break, too late for recompense when weight evaporates.
- Contents:
- Cosmogony
- Lares and Penates
- Bower bird
- Lady on a unicycle
- Same lady, different unicycle
- The truth about effects
- Genealogy
- Girl under bug zapper
- Portrait of the artist with toothpick bridge
- Itinerant
- Mnemosyne
- Fisher King
- Bildungsroman
- The school by the zoo
- Tactics: a short lesson
- Portrait of the artist with paint-by-numbers
- Svengali deck
- Plot twists
- Flea circus
- Felix culpa
- Epithalamium
- Storm and stress
- Aftermath
- Dead matter
- Assisted living
- Miniatures
- The truth about distance
- A correlated history of synchronity.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- "2010 winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry"
- ISBN:
- 1-57441-342-2
- OCLC:
- 794700548
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