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The transit of Venus / Susan Firer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Firer, Susan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Omaha, Nebraska : The Backwaters Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In Firer's poems, place, often the western shore of Lake Michigan, provides an imagistic and sonic landscape in which language explores the 'empire of skin' with its daily happinesses and sorrows, gifts and losses.Often blue light illuminates these poems and frequently the language of a Catholic childhood shows up.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Nervous Catechism
- One: Dear Baby Star, Dear Little Astronaut
- Dear Hippocampus,
- Oh, Nerve
- Dear Baby Star, Dear Little Astronaut,
- Dear Subcallosal Cingulate,
- Easting
- Dear Dr. Limnologist,
- North
- Trans-Neptunian Objects
- As If Made of Blue Legos
- January
- Thank You, Blizzard,
- Eid
- He Is Trying to Get Home from the Store,
- Under November's Religious Sky
- Under the Blue Angel in the Zurich Train Station
- Two: Of Plural Pronouns
- Under the Influence
- Further Lines for Fortune Cookies
- In Restless Migratory Klezmer Winds
- Milwaukee Melancholy
- The Ablutions of Sun
- At the Night Window
- Before I Give Away His Favorite Coat
- A Girl Rollerblading in Turquoise Short Shorts
- The Transit of Venus
- The Dog Stars
- His Last Receipt
- The Inheritance
- Repetition Works for the Moon
- . . . , ! . ? #XIV
- Three: Conjugating Space
- Brother Michelangelo
- Four: Breaking and Entering
- Reading My Ántonia
- A Rock Named Edgar Allan Poe
- Money Is the Thing with Feathers
- Checklist
- Swabians
- Flyby Ice Age
- The Happiness Tourist
- I Have Always Measured in Poems
- Some of Us Are Not Born
- Grapefruit
- Sentences I Never Thought I Would Say
- Thank You
- The Song Asked if My Ears Were on Straight
- Silly Little City I Live and Love In
- Dear Tomorrow,
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-2056-0
- OCLC:
- 1117640865
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