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Library of small catastrophes / Keith S. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Keith S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (91 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins' ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies.Drawing from Jorge Luis Borges' fascination with the library, Rollins uses the concept of the archive to offer a lyric history of the ways in which we process loss.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Contents
- I
- A Woman of Means
- Skinning Ghosts Alive
- original [sin]
- mis · ery
- The Fultz Quadruplets
- Child Witness
- Lost Causes
- On All Fours
- Water No Get Enemy
- The Path of Totality
- Self-Portrait of Librarian with T.S. Eliot's Papers
- To Whoever Is Reading Me
- All the World Began with a Yes
- II
- The Library of Babel
- Free Radical
- The Librarian
- Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
- The Code Talkers
- Report from inside a White Whale
- Elephants Born without Tusks
- Portrait of a Pack Horse Librarian
- Fiery Young Colored Girl
- A Valid Archive
- Public Domain
- Library of Small Catastrophes
- And Then There Were None
- Oral Fixation
- Five and a Possible
- How Not to Remember
- III
- born [again]
- mer · cy
- Cento for Not Quite Love
- Viva Voce
- For You
- The Beastangel
- A Rock Trying to Stand
- Why Is We Americans
- Manifesto, or Ars Poetica #3
- Word of Mouth
- Overkill
- What Is Tragedy?
- Object Permanence
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Many Thanks ...
- About the Author
- Books
- Copyright
- Special thanks.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61932-199-8
- OCLC:
- 1105038469
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