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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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