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Nightshades / Michael Gessner.
LIBRA - Rare PS3557.E824 N54 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gessner, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small press books.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Traister, Dan (donor) (Libra Rare copy)
- Physical Description:
- 106, [6] pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Buffalo, New York : BlazeVOX Books, 2022.
- Contents:
- Expectations
- Whifflings
- Dedications
- Souls
- In the History of Great Ideas
- Hymn of the Kharites
- Aubade, Aquamarine
- Daily Reading
- Moroccan Door
- Misanthrope
- Kenophobia
- Canto of Transaction
- Weeding
- Letter to My Son
- Counting Sideways
- Romance
- Portrait With Muse
- Painted Hands
- Moons of Jupiter
- This Experience of God
- Sylphs in the Catalinas
- Hölderlin's Coat
- Field Trip to Monkey Temple
- Sunday Afternoon
- Keening the Shades
- My Life is Measured
- Walls
- Song of the Deaf
- The Poet and the Four Brides of Syria
- Ghost Trees
- To History
- What Were You Ever to Me Then
- Water Dream
- St. Poetry
- A Brief History of Cryptography
- Surfers at Cambria
- Copland at Chautauqua
- Idolatry
- Certainty
- Deception
- Prayer For What I Need to Do
- Clairvoyance
- To a Toenail
- The New Poetry
- The Mummies of Guanajuato
- A Note on the Idea of Direction
- In the Middle of Winter
- Calla Lilies
- The Last Step
- Moon Talk
- L. A. Storm Drains
- Morning Words
- From the Knowledge of Sleep
- Sunroom
- A Christmas Day
- Ode to Meaning
- Pencil Sketch with Motif
- Almanac
- Plath's Father
- Joseph
- Pulmonary Concerns or My Heart is a Roomful
- Tableau Vivant
- To Tiresias
- Íkaros
- Sentimental
- The Gods of Beauty are Busy
- Irving's Piazza
- Keats in the Bay of Naples Dying
- Sunbonnet with Flowers
- Girl with Bags
- At the Red Garter
- Billy Collins, a Meditation
- Epitaph
- Field Work
- Identity, a Clinical Note
- Sr. Corinne Recker, O.P., in Heaven
- In Anticipation of a New Year
- Evening Recitation.
- Notes:
- "Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey Garza. Cover Art: Eye of Maria Miles Heyward ca. 1802 Edward Green Malbone."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Libra Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2023 by Dan Traister.
- ISBN:
- 9781609643959
- 160964395X
- OCLC:
- 1314123082
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