In praise of falling / Cheryl Dumesnil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumesnil, Cheryl, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poems in this collection are the proverbial spring bulbs abandoned in the basement, growing toward a slim crack of sunlight. They are both aware of the limitations of social structures and forcefully committed to breaking out of those traps, urging toward a better way of living. The characters in these poems resist the twenty-first century's prescription for a life of emotional-spiritual bankruptcy, reaching toward an ever-elusive glimmer on the horizon.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. Theories

It's not Armageddon

Atlantis

Don't Miss It

Bernal Heights

"A Soldier's Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970"

Theories

Prayer for Sleep

American Robin

Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head

On the first day of class

Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin

II. Changing Room

The Storyteller's Daughter

Killing

The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade

Chosen

Stars

The Hill

Clarissa's Great Aunt

Changing Room

Triangle Tattoo

Hard Labor

III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep

Foundling

Nightmare Predicting Change

Recurring

Junk Shop Magic

True

Afterbirth

Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep

Other Nights

Revisited

Narrative

IV. Say Yes

In Praise of Falling

Meteorology

The Swimmer

Wetlands

Don't Ask Me

When

If

Q to the 6 Train

Creature

Dark Magic

Getting It Right This Time

Say Yes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

"Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett poetry prize"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822978282

0822978288

OCLC:

835768629