Raw goods inventory / Emily Rosko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosko, Emily, 1979-

Series:

Iowa poetry prize.

Winner of the Iowa poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Raw Goods Inventory, Emily Rosko gives us a poetic inventory in a virtuosic display of voices and accents. The poems come with sharp elbows and knees; they are nomadic, acquisitive, dispersive, and diffractive. More elementally, Rosko's poems contain the scattered bric-a-brac of the imagination, with goods that range from a dud egg to genetic hybrids, from Marian iconography to pigs at a state fair. She offers honest embodiments of anxiety, awkwardness, and boredom, as she also recasts with wit and grace the standard poetic fare: love, death, and disappointment. Idiomatic, raw, and skewed i

Contents:

I: Clearing the yard

Aquatic

What's discovered is wiped out

Vigilance

What closes

Wave factor

Sketch

Any good scientist could tell you

Clockwork

Send word to the glue factory

A chameleon

II: Tongues

Ventriloquized bodies

The toy divine(s)

Pigskin

Insulation

The dandelions went

Conduct

Three constructions

Lives of astrologers

Hot air

Conniption fit

At the sushi arcade

Raw goods inventory

III: Hanging out the wash

A sorry concept, that town

Dzien dobry

In the land of sleeping people

Entry

Sleeping bear dunes

Before surgery

Episodes

Bundle

Pall

Telluric

Sanctuary

IV: Spare

An opening onto

Spectrum

Elephant

Less art, more monkeys

Resort

Glossitic

Our lady of appearances

Blind feel

Occasionally she, you

Slip

Measures

Deduction

Even before your elbow knocked over the glass.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587296741

1587296748

OCLC:

645294267