South x South : poems from Antarctica / Charles Hood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hood, Charles, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antarctica--Poetry.

Antarctica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South × South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our planet. Blending travel narrative, historical research, and the surprises of magical realism, Hood presents life in Antarctica and the history of polar aviation as both a miracle of achievement yet also as a way to understand humanity's longing to be creatures of the heavens as well as the earth. South × South is poetry at its most inventive and surprising, insisting that the world is stranger and more glorious than we ever might have guessed.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Food for the Moon; Waking Up with Mechanics; C-17, Pegasus Field; Tulips; Things the Doctor Asks; Girl, Trees, Paper Balloons; Last Year's Checklist; I Take Good Notes, Getting Ready to Fly South; Scale Model; Marble Point Refueling Station; History of Luck; Manifest for a Pole Flight; Free-Fall (1); Free-Fall (2); What Comes Next; One was named June-; A Short History of Flight with an Emphasis on Food; Robert Falcon Scott Strikes-Through His Journal Coming Back from the Pole; Matchbox; Pemmican; Dibs on Shotgun; Royal New Zealand Air Force

Galen Rowell Rides Eliot Porter Like a PonyFSA; Telling Michael Light; Sunrise on Mercury; Kate Coles Erases Me; Suicide of Lawrence Oates; Briefing; Arrival Forms; Fifteen Seconds; Morning Edition; Shackleton's Grave; Some Luck, McMurdo; Miss Gallagher; Names; Skype; McMurdo, Still Lucky; Pinniped Physiology; I Cut My Knee, Too; Exit Interview; ACH 044; Water Sky

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821444559

0821444557

OCLC:

884016937