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Natural trouble / Scott Hightower.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hightower, Scott.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Food--Poetry.
- Food.
- Inheritance and succession--Poetry.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Equality--Poetry.
- Equality.
- Bereavement--Poetry.
- Bereavement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- GTruly a cabinet of curiosities, each poem a collage of surprising or remembered details, opening onto further marvels. The effect is vertiginousGand exhilarating. Scott Hightower has Marianne MooreGs scissors and Elizabeth BishopGs spectacles, and he has written a book in the spirit of their adventurous precisions.G J. D. McClatchy.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Andean Serenade at Santiago de Compostela""; ""Peas Porridge in the Pot""; ""Five Weather the Storm""; ""Weather in Richard Long�s Sculpture""; ""Take It Away""; ""Tontine""; ""�52 Maneuvers""; ""Village Cena""; ""Caravaggio Moderno""; ""St. Jerome and the Angel""; ""Natural Trouble""; ""Trouble Opening the Record""; ""Mysterious Real Estate""; ""Carriage""; ""The Peaceable Kingdom of the Branch""; ""Rattle of Bones""; ""Swan Eaters""; ""American Cooking""; ""Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin""; ""Bravado Farce""; ""Amazing Grace""; ""Spring Shearing""; ""In Visiting Hours""
- ""Fortune-Telling""""Rhythm and Blues: Rings and Burls""; ""Festival""; ""With an Instinctive Certainty of the Charms of the Modish, ��For the Fairest��""; ""Currency at the ��Common Ground��""; ""Yasumasa Morimura as Frida Kahlo""; ""John Kelly as Dagmar Onassis as Joni Mitchell""; ""Off the Hook""; ""Fortune Three""; ""Dim Sum in Philadelphia""; ""Four Saints in Three Acts:""; ""Salgado�s Two Men in a Sauna""; ""April 11, 1861, Arrowhead""; ""Dignity at ��Trumpets��""; ""Traveler""; ""En la fuente de las conchas, en el Paseo del Prado, Madrid""; ""Tartessos""
- ""The Garum Pits of Baelo""""Cusp and Tether""; ""Tacking""; ""Cathedral Plaza""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4819-4
- OCLC:
- 811403292
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