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Late empire / Lisa Olstein.

LIBRA PS3615.L78 L37 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Olstein, Lisa, 1972- author.
Standardized Title:
Poems. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
ix, 99 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2017]
Summary:
"Signature wit, wordplay, candor, and absurdity evoke an approachable dinner conversation uncomfortably at home in the American empire"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Built for It 3
This Is Our American America Here Is Your Son 4
Arrangements 5
Questions Are an Attribute of God 7
The Disaster 8
Night People 9
What We're Trying to Do Is Create a Community of Dreamers 11
We Look Forward to Seeing You Again Soon 12
It All Lights Up 13
Possibility of Repair 14
The Messengers Come When You Are Sitting at the Table 16
Blue Water Navy 17
Air Rights 18
I Want to Save This Whale 19
Turned Back the Disaster Comes Back 20
Cold Comfort 21
Nothing Good Gets Away 25
Lake Effect 26
Imply a Future 27
My Life Blew Upon 28
A Hundred Thousand Questions Why 29
Herd Flock Hive 30
Waiting for You to Speak I Mouth the Words 31
Fallback Position 32
Good Deeds Undone 33
We Mourn the End by Applauding 34
Wrong Question 35
Private Dick 36
The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance 39
It's Another Deadly Day 41
Sad Promotion 42
To the Left of Boom 43
Space Race 44
Now Lead Me Out of This Story, Spirit 46
A Simple Lesson on the Buried Spirit 47
Other Things in View 49
The Invention of Perspective 50
A Crucial Error 51
Essay Means to Try 52
Despair Fire 53
Every Pastoral Is an Elegy 54
A Poetics of Space 59
Where the Use of Cannon Is Impractical 77
Shot Through 78
So Long 79
Achilles Really Loved That Girl 80
Run Every Race As If It's Your Last 81
Consider Yourselves All "Debbie" 82
Ready Regret 83
Your Country Needs You 84
Charismatic Megafauna 85
Pioneer Me 86
Then They Ate Their Horses 87
The Canary's Job Is to Die 88
The Symptom Pool 89
People Are Hanged Curtains Are Hung 90
Unknown Beloved 91
Blue Stragglers 92
Cinders Of 93.
ISBN:
9781556595189
1556595182
OCLC:
974676999

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