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Nightingale / Paisley Rekdal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rekdal, Paisley, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (86 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Port Townsend, Washington] : Copper Canyon Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Nightingale is a book about change.This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid's epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal's characters changed not by divine intervention but by both ordinary and extraordinary human events.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- Psalm
- Knitted Thylacin
- The Cry
- Four Marys
- Psyche
- The Wolves
- Tiresias
- Horn of Plenty
- Astyanax
- Io
- II
- Philomela
- Nightingale: A Gloss
- III
- Quiver
- Gokstadt/Ganymede
- Telling the Wasps
- IV
- Marsyas
- Pasiphaë
- The Olive Tree at Vouves
- Driving to Santa Fe
- Pear
- Pythagorean
- About the Author
- Books
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special thanks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61932-201-3
- OCLC:
- 1105000376
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