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Soluble fish / Mary Jo Firth Gillett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillett, Mary Jo Firth, 1948-
- Series:
- Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
- Crab Orchard series in poetry : first book award
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fishes--Poetry.
- Fishes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (94 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Soluble Fish transports readers to a place of discovery, exploring issues of borders, familial and love relationships, and other aspects of being human.Mary Jo Firth Gillett layers her poems in rich metaphor as she searches for meaning in everyday life.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One
- Itch, Scratch
- Like a Deity, Like a Diatom
- Of Pavlov
- Sea Monkeys
- Pollywog
- Memory
- Chicken Tile
- Camping Out in the '50s
- Hand-Me-Down Pantown
- Grandma's Fingerless Gloves
- Airborne
- Segue
- Lighthouse
- Fish Tales
- Two
- I ask-
- Word
- Poem for the Hibiscus
- Cardinal
- Higgins Lake, Michigan, 9-11
- Farmer, 1938
- Dear Departed Reverend Grandfathers,
- Watching Dad Filet a Bass
- Valences
- Snowflake Obsidian
- Of Snakes, Of Gluttony
- A Note to the Skeptics
- The bag lady
- Hotel, Soldiers Field Road, Boston
- Small losses...
- Ladybug
- Letter to the Muse
- Three
- Making Soup
- Poppy Field, Lily Pond
- What I Believe, with Four Final Words from Li-Young Lee
- Electric Tomato
- My Refrigerator, and Other Acts of Whim, of Faith
- On Being Asked by a Student How You Know When a Poem Is Done
- Timeline for Lovers
- Animal!
- Every memory is a dream
- Your Mouth
- Dad's Cornea Transplant
- Lightning Bugs
- Spindrift
- World Enough
- Notes
- Other Book in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
- Back Cover
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- "First book award"--P. [i].
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-8763-8
- 1-299-05081-6
- OCLC:
- 830674493
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