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Kimonos in the Closet / David Shumate.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shumate, David, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 62 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don't know when I've enjoyed reading a book so much."-David Budbill
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- My Desk Sets Sail
- The Art of the Moors
- Chagall's Blue Horse
- Curry
- Mangos
- Octopus Stuck Between My Teeth
- Lincoln
- Chumming Around with Hemingway
- The Many Offspring of Genghis Khan
- Kimonos in the Closet
- Talking to the Woman in the Yellow Kimono
- Rainfall
- Waking Up as a Buddhist
- My Buddhist Lessons
- Shakespeare in the Morning
- Talking Animals
- Bringing Things Back from the Woods
- Animal Souls
- The Immigrant's First Day at School
- The Races of Man
- The Old Teacher
- Troy
- The Man Who Made the Minotaur Up
- Those Days in Eden
- If You Hire a Poet to Draw a Map
- Route 66
- In the Company of Bedouins
- A Thousand Steeples
- The Kind of Sleep You Can Only Get in Church
- Upon Learning Disturbing Facts Concerning the Last Supper
- An Acre
- Amish
- Rural Aria
- Broom
- Hummingbirds
- The Meek
- The Lost Arts
- Rain Dance
- Republic of Umbrellas
- Taking the Psychological Test
- When a Fool Reaches Maturity
- A Good Idea
- Hieronymus Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights'
- The Landscape Paintings of Cheap Motels
- In the Abstract
- The Acres of the Moon
- An Inventory of Moons
- How to Speak to the Senile
- Between Dogs
- The Tang Dynasty
- Moving Away from Home
- Surgery
- The Executioner
- After My Beheading
- All the Dead
- Getting Outfitted for a Casket
- Widow
- The Soldier's Hundredth Birthday Cake
- The Last Nazi
- A Hundred Years from Now
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 9780822979166
- 0822979160
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