Life of a hunter : poems / by Michelle Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Michelle, 1979-

Series:

Kuhl House poets.

Kuhl House poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Part detective novel, part cinematic saga, part street-smart narrative, the poems in The Life of a Hunter form a document of expedition that couples individual discovery with communal transformation. Michelle Robinson's characters are consigned to particular mechanisms of survival to various forms of physical and psychological evolutions--as a reaction to their search for an acceptable spiritual condition. The multiple identities of her pressured characters are susceptible to physical transformations that provide "a brief jolt of anesthesia, / instead of the cold tenderness of interruption."

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I; Clothes for the Body that Expands; From This Miserable Mutineer a Stutter; Keith; Currency; This May or May Not Become a Permanent Position; Tenant; This Passenger is One of Three Conspirators.; [Untitled]; Pepper; I've Got a Crush on You; Part II; When Smithson Looked into the Salt Lake What He Saw; [Untitled]; There Being Transfer; A Brief History of the Nail; He Could Have Wrapped Up His eyes and Thrown Them Away; The Second Woman I loved Did Something Wonderful; The Life of a Hunter; Arriving at the Landing One Has Crossed over the Subject; Aberration

If He Looks He Can See Himself FloatingPart III; Gambling; Not The Way Things Are Now but The Way Things Are; Geography; Previously Seen Suspicious Character; Cul de Sac; Chapter V, In Which I Lament the Errors of My Social Life and Join the Ranks of the Diplomatic Service; [Untitled]; Living; If We Are ""It"" for One More Minute the Game will have become both boring and cruel; [Untitled]; Part IV; Epilogue; [Untitled]; My Love, My Newest Stranger; Listening; Symptoms; The World within Reach and the World of Everyday; Monologue on the Ostrakons; Falling into a Rug; [Untitled]; Saturnalia

SpacesOn the Construction of a Social Reality; Part V; The Narrator Dismembered the Corpse and hid the Parts in 3 Sections; [Untitled]; Chapter 1. Helen in the Salon; Chapter 2. Helen's Apostrophe; Chapter 3. Helen and the Aromatherapy Candle; Chapter 4. Helen Does And Art Installation; Let Us Not Express Our Love in Children; There Being Transfer; It Can Begin with an Inspection of the Premises; Front; The Fantasy of Incompleteness; My Child Speaks of Flowers and Mud

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587296451

1587296454

OCLC:

646888078