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Library of small catastrophes / Keith S. Wilson.

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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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