Sentences and rain / Elaine Equi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Equi, Elaine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, [Minnesota] : Coffee House Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whether celebrating clones or revising Led Zeppelin, Equi melds verse with aphorism, wisdom with wicked playfulness.""-Entertainment Weekly Equi's poems are under the breath asides from your cleverest friend-witty, thoughtful, and wry. SLIGHT A slight impliesif not an insult(real or imagined)at least somethingunpleasant --a slight cold,a slight headache.No one ever says:""You make me slightly happy.""Although this, in fact,is often the case. Widely published and anthologized, Elaine Equi's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Nation, and numerous volumes o

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Other Books by Elaine Equi""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Spontaneous Generation""; ""Cardboard Figures in a Landscape""; ""In Black and White""; ""If I Have Just One Word""; ""The Dark Age of Summer""; ""Umbrella Photo Poems""; ""Sentences and Rain""; ""Royal Feathers""; ""Numeric Values""; ""Cut to the Chase""; ""Jaillight""; ""Yo y Tu""; ""In Search of the Lost Diminutive""; ""Slight""; ""Dear Martyr""; ""Let�s Do Lunch""; ""Shoulder to the Grindstone""; ""Murmur and Motion""; ""Dear Ovid""; ""Pathos""; ""A Story Begins""

""Games of Medieval Sadness""""Imbibing""; ""A Blue Humming""; ""A Date with an Undertaker""; ""The Dizzy Staircase""; ""Reznikoff�s Clocks""; ""Time Traveler�s Potlatch""; ""Higher Power""; ""Distant Relatives""; ""The Honeycomb of Sleep""; ""The Ones You Meet on the Way Up""; ""Ode to Distraction""; ""Repetition and Duration""; ""The Repairman""; ""Black Bag""; ""Vanilla Orchids""; ""Darkness Adds Beauty""; ""Do You Think a Photocopy of a Snowflake Is More Beautiful than the Original?""; ""Something�s Coming""; ""Varieties of Fire in Hilda Morley""; ""Three Unrelated""

""Restaurant Art""""Caught in a Downpour""; ""Get In""; ""Library of E""; ""Library of J""; ""Some""; ""Metallic""; ""Scrabble with the Illuminati""; ""Blue Jay Way""; ""Bardo Boulevard""; ""C�mon, Really This Is Bullshit""; ""Trees Rehearsing""; ""The Courtyard""; ""Backward Glance""; ""The Lives of Statues""; ""Happy Birthday, Doc!""; ""Resounding""; ""Zukofsky Revision""; ""Becomes""; ""A Medium-Rare Serenade""; ""Serial Seeing""; ""Literary Lipsticks""; ""Haiku Centos""; ""Bill Brandt""; ""Phantom Anthem""; ""The Winner""; ""McCabe & Mrs. Miller""; ""Pegasus""; ""Muffin of Sunsets""

""I Never Seem to Arrive""""By the River of White Noise""; ""Stationary Yet Adrift""; ""Notes""; ""Funder Acknowledgments""; ""The Publisher's Circle of Coffee House Press""; ""Allan Kornblum""; ""Elaine Equi""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Equi, Elaine. Sentences and rain.

ISBN:

9781566894265

1566894263

9781566894210

1566894212

OCLC:

910968295