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Levee : poems / Paul Otremba.
Van Pelt Library PS3615.T74 A6 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Otremba, Paul, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum.
- Houston (Tex.)--Poetry.
- Houston (Tex.).
- Petroleum--Poetry.
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 111 pages ; 23 cm cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The poems in Paul Otremba's Levee explore the intersection between the ecological, the political, and the personal in a world built on oil and greed. The city of Houston is at once backdrop and metaphor for the ways in which violence -both natural and manmade - have become part and parcel of twenty-first century life. 'It's a luxury to be this calm,' Otremba writes in the opening poem, a held-breath between the disastrous effects of hurricanes and cancer. Yet Otremba's exquisite lines manage to wrest meaning from the devastation wrought by both global warming and a terminal illness: 'If there is a lesson / on how not to worry, it's that you're not stuck only being one thing, /the multitudes in me and the multitudes in you.'"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Floodplain Suite
- Old Long Since p. 3
- Climate Is Something Different p. 5
- Between Dog and Wolf p. 7
- Hail the Lizard p. 8
- The Only Spider Named by Charles Darwin p. 10
- Constellation p. 13
- Like a Wide River p. 15
- Suite America p. 17
- Then on the Shore of the Wide World p. 21
- Water Landing p. 23
- Six Ways p. 25
- Doctrine of That Bird Once Worshipped on the Shore p. 27
- Course and Spiral
- Course and Spiral p. 31
- Levee
- Good Morning, People p. 41
- Midden p. 43
- Twilight of the Gods p. 44
- Cabin in the Woods p. 47
- How Much Tremor There Will Be p. 49
- The Abridged Politics of Starlings p. 51
- The Representatives p. 53
- Forty Million Daggers p. 55
- Peripatetic p. 56
- Red Telephone in a Secure Location p. 59
- The Kremlin Mountaineer p. 60
- Figure at the Base of a Crucifixion p. 62
- The Palace p. 64
- Morning Dew p. 66
- The New Republic of California p. 69
- Hard as It Seems p. 71
- When They Looked Up, They Saw No One p. 73
- Lock
- Levee, Lock, & Dam p. 77
- Aces/Eights p. 79
- Sentences (Künstlerroman) p. 80
- Badlands p. 84
- Medical History p. 86
- The Mountains of Madrid p. 88
- The Dance p. 90
- Gold Coast p. 92
- The Extra Welcomes You to Sunnydale p. 94
- Expectancy p. 95
- Lives of the Saints p. 96
- The Body Most Days p. 98
- Portrait with Dust and Fingerprint p. 100
- Cutman p. 102
- After X p. 103
- Vertigo p. 107
- Nocturne with Emperor and Clown p. 110.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781945588419
- 1945588411
- OCLC:
- 1090280192
- Publisher Number:
- 99983185267
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