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The laughter of Adam and Eve : poems / by Jason Sommer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sommer, Jason.
- Series:
- Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
- Crab Orchard series in poetry
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (90 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Near the beginning, just after the fall, was laughter--at least as Jason Sommer imagines it.In the title poem, Eve catches Adam's hilarity over what passes for a tree outside of Eden, their laughter a heady combination of longing, defiance, and perhaps even relief, through which they find they now possess "a knowledge of evil that is good," an.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1
- The Laughter of Adam and Eve: A Detail
- New Covenant, Causality
- The One Who Knows All Language
- Brouhaha
- At the Akhmatova Museum, Fountain House Annex
- Signs and Wonders
- Film Clips of Munkacs, 1933
- Gunga Din
- Saint Kevin, Blackbird, and Others
- No Script
- Part 2
- Resignation Bird
- Sleeping with a Woman Who Writes
- The Love of Pygmalion
- Lover
- A as Insignia
- Vile
- That Dream, Your Dream, She Says
- Enemies
- Her Pleasure in Herself
- Fashion Show
- Plague Tale
- In a Breath
- Mytheme
- What Old David Felt
- Religion, Then Science
- Part 3
- To One at Risk
- This My Failure This My Life This My
- Regret
- First Things
- Escaped to Tell
- Passengers Will . . .
- At Day's End, as at the End of Any Day
- Evening
- Letting It in a Little
- That The Compensations of Art
- Spend, Spend
- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-3279-5
- OCLC:
- 858764949
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