Post-Rapture Diner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barresi, Dorothy.

Series:

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Local Subjects:

Poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""[In The Post-Rapture Diner] the brashness and sadness of our polyglot nation is given voice. Dorothy Barresi speaks in tongues - of 'undetonated cherubs, ' sitcoms, and agents provocateurs. Her toughminded, eloquent poems articulate family tangles, unintentional cruelties, innocenc and sophistication. ... The Post-Rapture Diner creates a language commensurate to the ethical complexities of this particular American moment and to the ongoing human dilemma.""--Alice Fulton""[This] new book of poetry imagines southern California as a vast, hot, flat desert wasteland that revises T.S. Eliot's

Contents:

Contents

Some Questions We Might Ask

Mother Hunger and Her Seatbelt

Poem

My Anger in 1934

Called Up: Tinker to Evers to Chance

The Post-Rapture Diner

When I Think About America Somtimes (I think of Ralph Kramden)

Still Life with Hummingbird and Typewriter

Shirts & Skins

Vanity Fair

On First Looking Into Wells Fargo and Seeing a Rock Star

The Vinegarroon

The Nude Detective, a Complaint

Vivid Video

On the Poisoning of a Neighborhood Cat

Noah Descending

Crow Sermon

Surfing as Meditation

Icarus Holds the Trouble LightThe Older Brothers of Girls I Grew Up With

The Prodigal Daughter

For Andrew, Setting Out on a Long Journey Alone

Shoestore Monkey

The Jaws of Life

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780822990796

0822990792

OCLC:

605083915