Sharps cabaret : poems / Katy Giebenhain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giebenhain, Katy, author.

Contributor:

Mercer University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

70 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The moving targets of identity are not always dramatic or final. Sharps Cabaret brings us ex-expatriate poems. They enter-in one way or another-once-familiar territory. Here, when re-crossing oceans, streets, supermarket aisles, or exam rooms, the trip is always a trip. Something is always at stake. In Sharps Cabaret, Giebenhain handles the underestimated and overlooked with good-natured force. From horseshoe-pitching in a war zone to Mary the Mother of God. speaking from an icon, from reading graffiti in a Prague restaurant to American health insurers acting like highway bandits, from the startling cleanliness of German windows to the introduction of the patron saint of the world's most confusingly-named disease, here's a collection that urges us to look again. Book jacket.

Contents:

I.

Forget Beauty 3

Foreign Language for Adults 4

Abraham Lincoln's Pontiac 5

Glucose Self-Monitoring 6

Hunting Season 7

Falling Asleep in a 300-Year-Old Industrial Cottage in Derbyshire Surrounded by Star Wars Action Figures 8

1969 9

James Bond and the Type 1 Diabetic Bridesmaid 11

Little Prophets 13

"I am Ready to go Home" 14

Trying to Write Nature 15

II.

One Icon Speaks 19

Replica 20

Flying low Over Chester County at Night 21

Pretending to be Italian 22

First Day of the Battle 23

Green Card Prayer on the Turnpike 24

Song for Type 1 Diabetes 25

Another Ex-Expatriate 27

Taxidermy in South Central Pennsylvania 28

Kitchen Meditation on the 22nd Article of the Augsburg Confession 31

Itasca 32

Circus Girls at the New Pastor's Installation 33

Suddenly I Love my Hair 35

III.

Robin Hood is Gone 39

Miss Hydraulic Fracturing 40

The Patron Saint of T1D 41

Getting Back on the Horse 42

Red Baron Singles 43

Unpacking the Angel in South Central Pennsylvania 45

Obelisks 46

Oregon 48

The Accidental German 49

Marlboro Country Remembered 51

Christmas Eve, Feeding the Bull Calves 52

Reisekapellen 53

The Boxer's Dog 55

IV.

"Lord, in Your Mercedes, Hear Our Prayer" 59

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Lancet 60

Girl Moses 62

Re-calibrating the CGM on a Bench in Kensington Gardens 63

To a Hanover Potato Chip 64

Farm Road 65

Tail Weight 66

In the Library, Ty Newydd 68

The Gatekeepers 69

Sharps Underground Cabaret 70.

Notes:

Adrienne Bond Poetry Award, 2017.

ISBN:

9780881466140

088146614X

OCLC:

982958841