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Furious lullaby / Oliver de la Paz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De la Paz, Oliver, 1972-
- Series:
- Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
- Crab Orchard series in poetry : editor's selection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Poetry.
- Human body.
- Love poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Furious Lullaby is both a celebration of and a eulogy to the body in the twenty-first century.The collection, which examines the larger concepts of salvation and temptation in a world of blossoming strife, includes a series of aubades - dramatic poems culminating with the separation of lovers at dawn.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One
- Holiness
- Hour of Dawn
- Aubade with Scorpios and Monsoon
- Constricting Aubade
- Flutter
- Aubade with Doves, a Television, and Fire
- The Devil's Book
- Aubade with a Book and the Rattle from a String of Pearls
- God Essay
- The Devil's Hour
- Aubade with Constellations, Some Horses, and Snow
- Penitence Essay
- Aubde with Bread for the Sparrows
- My Dearest Apostacy,
- Hush
- Two
- My Dearest Conflict,
- What the Devil Said
- What the Eye Said
- What the Scapula Said
- On the Pores of the Flesh
- On the Pulse Residing Behind the Lobe of the Ear
- On the Fenestra Ovalis
- Aporia
- What the Ear Said
- What the Dead Said
- On the Epidermis
- On the Motions of Death
- Epitaph for the Musculature of the Neck
- My Dearest Transgression,
- Three
- Fury
- Aubade with Starlings and Kerosene Muted by Glass
- Messengers
- Mysteries Essay
- My Dearest Recklessness,
- Aubade with Memory Crystallized into a Figure of a Dancer
- Widening Aubade
- Aubade with a Heel of Bread, a Heart, and the Devil
- Prayer Essay
- Aubade with the Moon, Some Bones, and a Word
- My Dearest Regret,
- Aubade with a Thistle Bush Holding Six Songs
- Lullaby
- Other Book in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-8750-6
- 1-299-05064-6
- OCLC:
- 830838594
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