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Ascension / J. Scott Brownlee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brownlee, J. Scott, 1986- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country life--Texas--Poetry.
- Country life.
- Llano (Tex.)--Poetry.
- Llano (Tex.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 pages)
- Edition:
- Edition: first.
- Place of Publication:
- Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Ascension is a collection of lyric poems that chronicles life in and around Llano, Texas (population 3,033). Brownlee's poems meditate on the inescapability of place. Organ Solo with Oblivion and Gar Skittish fish lay eggs in this shallow stone cleft of an algae chorus. Turn my soul into song, if you can, River Lord. Treat believing the same as each minnow slipping coin-like into deep murk. Your spirit mimics me unblinking, fishbone face framing brackish absence, saying, Kneel into this. Lean low, sinner, & drink. Bitter infidel, swallow the black granite whole if you are not afraid of what comes after it: ___________. Live forever.
- Contents:
- Requiem for used ignition cap
- If the soul Is nothing
- Hill Country elegy
- Self-portrait as buck in the Pope and Young Club record book
- Ars poetica with a dead dog in it
- Llano villanelle
- Hosea 4:3
- Pasture ode
- Disappearing town
- Hill Country eulogy
- Organ solo with oblivion and gar
- Plunge
- The dead speak of herons
- Llano River, sunset
- Catfish heads on a clothesline
- Ascension.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- 2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-68003-046-9
- OCLC:
- 966761941
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