Instructions for seeing a ghost / Steve Bellin-Oka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellin-Oka, Steve, 1965- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 27.

Number 27 in the Vassar Miller poetry prize series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

91 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Book is a collection of poems that won our annual Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. Themes include exile from one's native country and sexual identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Self-Portrait as the Chosen One

The Subjunctive

Waning Gibbous

Postcard to John, Overlooking Barachois Beach, Prince Edward Island, Late May

Doppelgängers

Aleph

Survivor's Guilt

Leaving Prince Edward Island, July 2015

Three October Fragments

Providence

Palindrome Cento

Letter to John on the Anniversary of Miles Davis' Death

Tet

Cri de Coeur in Red

Invocation

Postcard to John, with a View of the French Quarter

Late April Song

Bēt

Those Who Want a Mask Have to Wear It

Ceremonial Cento

Three Songs for the Snake

Self-Portrait with the Death of the Firstborn

Letter to John Ashbery

Gimel

Cri de Coeur in White

Ghazal to John, from Exile

Post-Mortem

Postcard to John, with Early Spring Storm

Ganymede's Tutor, After the Ascension

After Chagall

Ḥē̄t

Leaving San Francisco, June 1999

Question

Dalet

Postcard to John, from Charlottetown, Late March

Epithalamion

She Was Always Sleeping Then

Zayin

Song to the Banished

Running the Film Backwards

Hē

Two Storms

Letter to John, with Plague of Absent Bees

Rooms

Anniversary

Still Life with the Plague of Darkness

Vav

Unfinished Stained Glass Window.

Notes:

Winner Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2019.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781574417876

1574417878

OCLC:

1121428803

Publisher Number:

99984130514