A mind like this / Susan Blackwell Ramsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsey, Susan Blackwell.

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey's A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness of everyday life, the natural world, literary history, popular culture, and more. Everything is fair game for Ramsey, who finds poetry in love and sickness and life, of course, but also in knitting and unreliable bladders and the peculiar name of Kalamazoo. Neruda makes an appearance, as do Eric Clapton and Brahms, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and Jimmy Stewart.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Source Acknowledgments; A Mind Like This; Pickled Heads: St. Petersburg; Louise Erdrich Learning Ojibiwemowin; Tell Me If You've Heard This One; Kalamazoo Decides She Likes Her Name; "And All Trades, Their Gear and Tackle and Trim"; Boliche; Peripheral: Emerson, 1847; Knitting Lace; The Duc de Saint-Simon Buys Lady Murasaki a Drink; January, Tulips; Gaudeamus, Full Band Version; A Mind Like This; The Comfort of Pickup Trucks; Why I Hate Storytellers; Aftereffects of Bell's Palsy; Ode to My Bladder; Outside Interests; Learning Curves

Mount St. Helen's, May 18, 1980 Sexing the Alligator; The Sword; Mariah Educates the Sensitive; Crocheting Chaos; Children in Church; Beads; The Kalamazoo Mastodon; I'm in Love with Leonard Woolf; In Order to Swallow, a Frog Hasto Close Its Eyes; Neruda in Kalamazoo; Deadheading with Kellee; Valentine's Day in Kalamazoo; Taking Jimmy Stewart to Bed; The Year Hits Perimenopause; Sow's Ear; Lilium Orientale; How to Seduce Henry David Thoreau; To a Picky Eater at Love's Table; August; Letter to Matt on the OpeningDay of Deer Season; Stalling; Amplification; Sexing the Alligator

The Genome for Luck Lidian Emerson Watches Her House Burn, Concord, July 23, 1872; Pattern and Ground; Consider Hairs; Emerson's Eyes; The Only Other Female in the House; Egg Tempera Painting, Koo Schadler,Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; The Tuesday before Our Friday Visit; Afterthought; Meeting Edward Lear in Heaven; Elegy from Halfway Up the Drive; Our Third Wedding Reception This Year Hits Its Stride; Pattern and Ground; Washing My Husband's Kilt Hose:A 32-Bar Reel

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

9786613811714

9781282233973

1282233971

9780803244702

0803244703

OCLC:

804665248