Self-portrait with cephalopod : poems / Kathryn Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Kathryn, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

74 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2021.

Summary:

"Self-Portrait with Cephalopod was selected by Francine J. Harris as the 2019-2020 winner of the Jake Adam York Prize"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Creation Myth

Dumb Beasts

Poem for Trending Tragedy

Photos of Pig That Appears to Have Blue Fat Beneath Skin Shared on Social Media

Dear Sirs

Do You Want to See More?

Job Qualifications

There Are So Many Ways to Decide What to Kill and What to Rescue

"That's Like the Oldest Trick in the Book, Next to Putting a File in the Cake"

Today is the Day

Regarding the Advertised Position

2. Spell to Turn the World Around

Psalm Formula: Anti-epistle

The Windows Kept On

Cast Your Cares Upon Him

Chronic and Nameless

What Spoils in the Sun

Psalm Formula: Of One Afflicted

Like Humans

Waking Late to a Late Spring

Parable of the Sower

Concerning Nectar, Concerning Brack

Cracking the Egg

Meditation Among the Fragments

3. The Danger

Independence Day

Self-Portrait with Cephalopod and Digitalis Purpurea

Sulfur

The Young Eat What These Birds Disgorge from Their Crops

All God's Creatures Got a Place in the Choir

And the Shrill Shall Lead the Blind

Perception

After the Funeral

Revisiting Salt Creek

Psalm Formula: Of the Psalmist

4. Most of Us Aren't Beautiful, Though Some Learn How

Of Gods and Galaxies

Legends Say

Inheritance

When I Stepped on the Mouths of Other Creatures, I Did Not Apologize

Situs Inversus

Salt-Washed Pictograph Just Beyond the Abandoned Bunker

Tree of Life

A Permeable Membrane in the Mutable Cosmos.

Notes:

Jake Adam York Prize, 2019-2020.

Other Format:

Online version: Smith, Kathryn, 1977- Self-portrait with cephalopod

ISBN:

9781571315175

1571315179

OCLC:

1152472827