[ominous music intensifying] : poems / Alexandra Teague.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teague, Alexandra, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Social conditions--21st century--Poetry.

United States.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vi, 83 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Ominous music intensifying

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Persea Books, Inc., [2024]

Summary:

"Alexandra Teague's fourth collection of poems deepens her ongoing inquiry into American optimism, disillusionment, and violence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

America the Beautiful: Thriftstore

"Orange Blossom Special" (arranged for Rome's burning)

The Horse That Threw Me

The Rough Beast Listens to a PSA from Lake America

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

The Rough Beast Receives an Invitation from America

Correlations

Sad Clown Paintings

Crossed Letters from a Concerned American

[It is undone business I speak of, this morning]

"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" (arranged for Brazen Bull)

The Rough Beast Goes to Outer Space

Field Blocks

America: Hepatomancy

The Rough Beast Takes a Painting Class

The Years I Lived Beneath the Lake

Mean High Water

The Rough Beast Would Like The Future To Be Clear

Lake Chacolet

Closed Captions

The Goth Comes Clean About Decay

When, Like Garden Spiders from Space Orbit, We Return

Eclipses

The Rough Beast Talks to the Falcon

[I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.]

Cambium

In the Glass Labyrinth at the Nelson Atkins Art Museum, the Rough Beast is Mistaken for the Minotaur

The Rough Beast Literally Arrives

Notes on the Poems.

Notes:

"A Karen & Michael Braziller book."

Other Format:

Online version: Teague, Alexandra, 1974- ominous music intensifying

ISBN:

9780892556069

0892556064

OCLC:

1425940563