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Burnt Island: Three Suites.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nurkse, D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life--Poetry.
- City and town life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "D. Nurkse's Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- My father's closet
- Night flight
- Saint Luke
- A puzzle at Saint Luke
- Two nights in the men's shelter
- 4:00 a.m
- A walk in Giovanna's Park
- The ring
- The last judgment
- The evacuation corridor
- Ruth
- October rendezvous
- The civilian casualties
- Searchers
- The reunification center
- A hike to Little Falls
- Germaine River
- Herkimer
- North of Althea
- Picnic at Opposite Island
- Cape Ann
- Home
- War on the ants
- Magnet Bay
- The marriage in Canaan
- Burnt Island
- Origins of desire
- Space marriage
- The dark universe
- Marriage in a rented house
- Separation at Burnt Island
- Diaspore
- Nine crows
- Fringillidae
- Six red spiders in the elm at High Falls
- Hymenoptera : the ants
- The river monarchs
- Tardigrades
- Eel migration
- Five marine solitudes
- Brittle star
- Defenses of the ocean
- The pressure zone
- The little sea
- The many-eyed Nemerteans
- Leuresthes Tenuis
- Pelagos
- Mysticeti
- Cetacea
- The granite coast.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 1-4000-4350-6
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