Hold like owls / Julia Koets ; foreword by Nikky Finney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koets, Julia, author.

Contributor:

Finney, Nikky, writer of foreword.

Series:

South Carolina Poetry Book Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of poems exploring memories and identity forged in the American South.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I; Paper Birds; Woman Drawn with Stars; Shrug of Broken Egg, Frozen Shell; Fruit in Bed; White on the Fence; Apples and Aristophanes; Blue Hour; The Sweet of Strawberries; When loss leans like a broken tree; Gift to a Girl in Phoenix; Above the Floor; Bruise; Wanderings; Wide-Eyed and Song; II; Gentle Corners of the Night; About Boats; Beauty Secrets; Lantern Bloom; Boxes of Old Photographs; Possums; Parking Lot Market; Oconee Bells; Curve of the Belly; Moth and Moon; A History of Hair; Sun would catch; III; Calico Street

After It's OverFor Julia in Little Armenia; Octave; Early Psalm; Buttered Toast; Plaster Dust; Hold Like Owls; Even Haystacks; One Afternoon; My Quixote; Losing Noon; When It Starts to Rain in San Francisco; IV; As Far as March; Hidden There; Joy, the Elephant, Greenville Zoo, 1990; Counting Pelicans; Encounters with Buzzards; December Hemlock; Blue House on Wheat Street; Larks at Dawn; Kume and the Washerwoman; i. Fallen; ii. Worn Too Thin; Painting on Silk; Ruin

Notes:

"Winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize"--Cover.

"Published in Cooperation with the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, University of South Carolina."

Paperback original edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2012.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611172652

1611172659

9781283983303

1283983303

OCLC:

910069604