Mister Toebones : poems / Brooks Haxton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haxton, Brooks, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 100 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Summary:

"The award-winning poet considers the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his tenth collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives to a daddy longlegs he sees at his father's grave. In other poems, the poet and his mother, in search of a swimming hole, find a copperhead rearing to strike, about to birth its live young; a poacher in Australia tries to untangle a platypus from a fishing net, only to be injected with venom from the spur on its hind leg. The poems explore rivers, oceans, and the frozen north, and outer space, where they encounter temperature and energies past endurance. Others venture into history among visionaries and despots, scientific prodigies, murderers, lovers. In response to the threats against human survival, our own recklessness chief among them, these poems seek a renewed vitality in attention to all and concern for being"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Canoe

The Other World

Mister Toebones, Called in Several Languages the Reaper

To Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham

After the Snow Squall

Olm

Early in the Christian Empire

The Featherbed

Copernicus

We Could Say Oypavoo

Sea Cave

Catullus, Carmen III

Catullus, Carmen VIII

Essential Tremor

To Josephine Chamberlain Ayres Haxton

Under the Searchlight of a Robot Sub

The Loving Essence of the Duckmole

Observations from a Hillside Stairway on the Day of Atonement, Just Before My Wife and Daughters Break Their Fast

Kropotkin and the Lake on Mars

Thanks to the Makers of Shells

Message, 1944

Unlit Kitchen, 5 A.M.

To Floyd, Louisiana

Sunset, Mare Spumans

From the Journal of Dr. Beaurieux

To the Water Bear

The Nationality of Neptune

The Arctic Vortex at Snooks Pond, 2014

Apologies to the Dead

Flower Medley

Eclipse

Near Saturn

Lingerie Femme and the Vagaries of Pronunciation

To Bald Eagle

Circa 1961

Oceanic

To Sirius B

A Voter from Mississippi Considers the State Constitution

A Cat Lover's Guide to The Bell Curve

To Jesse James

Love and Empire

From Anyte of Tegea

The Cormorant at Snooks Pond

Bananas

The Moons of Jupiter

Don't Get Me Wrong

Tracks Everywhere at Noon

The Bewilderment

To the Moon

Transit of Venus, 1882

Qoheleth

Where But to Think Is to Be Full of Sorrow

Fig Preserves.

Other Format:

Online version: Haxton, Brooks, 1950- Mister toebones

ISBN:

9780593318522

0593318528

OCLC:

1151541835