Cardinal points : poems / by Michael Pettit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettit, Michael.

Series:

Iowa poetry prize.

The Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Strung throughout the book are poems based on the Scottish photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, a historic photographic document. Pettit uses these pioneering images as the basis for his poetic dreaming, and the result is a poignant, integrated sequence of highly moving poems, studded between other vivid lyrics.

Contents:

Contents; Woman Jumping from Rock to Rock; Sunday Stroll; Evening on a Canadian Lake; Pavlov's Dog; So Long, Tuscaloosa; The Flight Path; Man Performing Back Somersault; Men Wrestling; No Birds; Sparrow of Española; The Uncompahgre Range; Many Buddhists; Mighty Sebastian Bach; Los Alamos Rush Hour; Sparrow Rousant; The Beyond; Elderly Man Lifting Log; Woman Turning and Lifting Train; Driving Lesson; Virginia Evening; Home Again; Louisiana New Year; National Geographic; Woman Emptying Bucket of Water on Seated Companion

Man Walking Downstairs Backwards, Turning, Walking Away While Carrying RockWillows; Astral Life; Valentine Show at the Lingerie Shop; Petting Zoo; March Thaw; House Move; Legless Boy Climbing in and out of Chair; Man Shadowboxing; Bad Back; The Fox Hunt; Furnace without End; Boat-tailed Grackles; Footsteps; Star Route, Box 2; Full Cry; Girl Walking Towards Woman, Carrying Flower; Cardinal Points

Notes:

Series statement from jacket.

ISBN:

9781587291876

1587291878

OCLC:

44964970