Civilization makes me lonely / Jennifer Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Sawtooth poetry prize series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boise Idaho : Ahsahta Press, 2017.

Contents:

Here, Too 1

The Protest Market 2

But I Need a Certain Song (Reprise) 4

I'm Coleridge But I Think Carlyle is Hot 6

I Told Wu Hung That Art Polices Absence 8

Kill Trying 9

You Can't Actually Kill Your Parents 10

Innocence Is Increasing Everywhere 13

Ars academica 17

Let Me Be Lonely 18

The Baby Has a Beautiful Icelandic Name 19

In My Aspect As Survivor 22

The Hour 23

Normal Sonnet 25

Autumn Gentrification 26

I Dó Love Thee, I Dó Love Thee 27

Bright Means Sharp 29

Unsayable and Right Here 30

Locus Multus. The Sleeper

After the hunt ended in an old gymnasium 33

I'm still infiltrating the lair of the boss who is me 35

There was no light I turned off my light to see 37

In the basement before I lost my faculties 39

The right mission on the wrong plane 41

My code name on the job was armistice 43

If sameness works only probabilistically 47

These are the ways in which we keep 51

Personal information private 51

Murder, She Wrote Art History as Ekphrasis 52

The Rosedark Agent of Horses 54

Please Let Us Live 56

The Dunes of Lake Michigan 57

The Control Room

Andrea and the Long Puree 61

In the Course of Defining Computing as Predictive Counting 62

Proliferation Zero One 63

Ruth, amid the Alien Corn 64

Ode to Autumn 66

Tacente (#:##:## AM): please accept my resignation 68

Acts of the Academics I 73

Acts 2 74

Poem for Kevin 75

Red Sonnet 76

Goth Pastoral 77

Abaddon 82

On Vows Rashly Taken 83.

Notes:

Winner of the 2016 Sawtooth Poetry Prize

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781934103753

1934103756

OCLC:

969160445

Publisher Number:

99975105481