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Bad summon / Philip Schaefer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaefer, Philip, author.
- Series:
- Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry.
- Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (95 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize Bad Summon explores the relationship between the majesty of nature and the quiet violence humans inflict upon themselves and others.The poems are dipped in loss, traveling between death and mountains, romance and rivers.They are addicted to the truth of experience and the energy behind regret.
- Contents:
- I. Luminal static. The New World
- The unaccounted
- Evening news
- Walk slowly, don't stare
- Earthenware
- Sisyphus self
- Discipline
- Summer blackout
- Once
- Smoke screen
- Overdose
- Barbiturate talismania
- I'm keeping the wooden horse
- Practicing invisible
- Minor dogma
- [Hideous] Miraculous. [Yesterday I found myself awake]
- Translating poorly
- [In this one we aren't exactly drowning] [In this one I'm wearing a paper bag]
- [In this one you haven't left]
- [A swarm of neighborhood dogs]
- After you left
- [In this one the car still runs]
- [In this one you are taking the creek]
- [It must have been a Saturday]
- Human aviary
- [I am dreaming in this one. You wax]
- [Two men are playing chess in a park]
- Autobiographies
- [I've been carving my mug shot]
- Backyard mirage therapy [That last month when we broke out]
- [I went on a date with a man]
- Elegiac
- River rat
- [I've stopped believing in death]
- [This the one holding a mug over]
- Longest division
- III. Hell feelings. Hypnosis
- Buffalo jump
- Whale song
- Bad summon
- The smoke detector where your heart should be
- Temp/oral
- Axis
- My friends
- Eventualities
- What dying was like
- Growing down
- Smoke tones
- Another language
- My America
- Touching down.
- Notes:
- Contents notes from ECIP table of contents.
- Some of these poems first appeared in other publications, sometimes in other forms.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-553-2
- OCLC:
- 988087471
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