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Connoisseurs of worms / Deborah Warren.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.A8645 C66 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warren, Deborah, 1946- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 85 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Paul Dry Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2021.
- Summary:
- " Connoisseurs of Worms is a bestiary, a theogony, a field guide, a museum guide, a pantheon, a history of learning ... Reading these poems will alter your thinking about a good many of the things that share heaven and earth with us."--Mark Jarman, author of The Heronry and Dailiness "Warren goes anywhere, inhabits anything: it is fun to see a poet so willing to embrace metamorphosis ... A great book."âe* The Millions Deborah Warren's witty and energetic poems are full of play and imagination. The title poem of Connoisseurs of Worms describes the mole, a 'geonaut supreme' with his oddly enviable tunnel vision. Other animals prompt views about humans, and not always happy ones. Alongside Charlemagne's elephant and an intracoronary mosquito, topics include a queen with an alleged tail, laughter-divination, Neanderthal hygiene, and an exploding baby. These poems delight in new perspectives and an astounding verbal music.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Connoisseurs of Worms
- Mole
- In Extremis
- Un Bar aux Folies Bergere (Manet)
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- Alboin and the Princess Rosamund
- The House Oblique to the Road
- C. elegans
- I.D.
- Euglena
- pt. II Churning Pixels
- Gelomancy
- The Olive Eaters
- PETscan
- pt. III On Stage
- Theatre Lobby
- I, vi
- Swan Lake
- Sleeping Beauty
- Revolution
- English 152: Daydream
- Priority
- Abul-Abbas
- pt. IV Limbless Psyches
- Slogging up the Cumulus Common Cause
- Vashti's Tail
- Psychopomp
- The Gopher-Wood
- The Translation of the House of Loreto
- Rebekah's Ultrasound
- Christening in Andover
- pt. V Betises
- Zebras, Morning
- Utilitarian
- Down-to-Earth
- ExNihilo
- Three Snails Argent
- The Gyascutus
- Quarry
- The Eumenides (Kindly Ones)
- The First Naiad
- Mosquito in the Heart
- Lycanthrope
- Cephalopoda sepiidae
- Identify the Following
- Reveille, 11:00 p.m.
- Pons Asinorum
- Water Tiger
- pt. VI Calibrating Infinity
- Gladys and the Exploding Baby
- Intersection
- Boy Stung by a Bee
- Pressure
- Anonymous Valentine
- Equivocal
- The Scourge of God
- Cupressus
- Lady Mondegreen
- Ellen Bright
- Tough
- The Toughness of Grace Crackbone
- 360°
- Human
- Climbing Etna
- Perspective
- Hydrographic
- Closer
- Peaceable Kingdom
- pt. VII Readout
- Readout
- Memento Mori.
- ISBN:
- 9781589881563
- 1589881567
- OCLC:
- 1251803218
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