Spit : poems / by Daniel Lassell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lassell, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Llama farms--Poetry.

Llama farms.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Wheelbarrow Books, [2021]

Summary:

"The poems in Spit explore the life of a boy growing up on a farm populated with chickens, captive wolves, and a herd of llamas learning to survive among a chaotic family and coyotes. The collection in part explores the role of a body, health, and illness and humans' treatment of the earth and each other. A theme of spirituality also runs throughout the collection as the speaker treks into adulthood yearning for peace amidst the decline of his parents' marriage"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The Llama Named James and John Sons of Thunder

Laws of Motion

The Wolves Next Door

The Lives of Chickens

Cheers

The Leaning Barn

An Account of a Llama's Death

Sinkhole

Tasting Moonshine

Spit

II. Mom Woke to a Coyote Staring in Her Window

Myself, a Barbed Wire

Blood Lungs

How to Pet a Llama

Taking in the Stray

Taking Care

Lyme

Silent Treatment

On the Fellowship of Rabies

Climates

Bottom Land

It's No Good

Brush Fire

At the Storm Cellar

III. The Afterlife

Tussle

Leaving the Farm

Portrait of Truth as a Satisfied Belly

Evolution Chart

Everywhere the Salt

The Way Home

IV. Breakage

Inadequate Prayers

Final Visit

Nothing is Clean in the Country

Monochromatic Untethering

End of the Llamas

The Light and Where It Lives

Finishing the Harvest

The Lesser Distances.

ISBN:

1611863961

9781611863963

OCLC:

1250382914