The waiting / Megan Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Megan, 1976-

Series:

Iowa poetry prize.

The Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a startling and original poetic voice, Megan Johnson in The Waiting reveals a vigilant young person who has suffered an unmentionable loss and who dismantles and reconstitutes lyric modes in a relentless search for solace. A lyric adventure of grief and search, The Waiting reinvents language from raw materials, driven by intense emotional need.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; I; How it comes to pass; Tradition, only the present; Still life with weave; Seasons (trying to align); Circumference; Rocket grass; A little / more; Enter an empty flowerpot; Stage left an umbrella; II; Why not matter; Why not bombard, all this heat; Why not trivialize, surely we love the alphabet; Why not forget we came here to get a good look; Why not look it up when you don't know what it means; Why not examine how time does not change much at all; Love poem (tree minus limb and counting); I woke; Finding way (an apple or the thunk)

Through my chest, where were youI am inside this flag; Rosary; III; The Waiting; IV; Getting ready for time; Hand clap; Wing for unaware; Dialogue of sea; Nocturne 1; Nocturne 2; Nocturne 3; In the manner of dying; Peephole

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587295959

1587295954

OCLC:

646887803