Creature : poems / Marsha de la O.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De la O, Marsha, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2024]

Summary:

Written during the last five years of the poet's father's life, Creature is a book about love, destruction, and the self, all standing in relation to family and the natural world. The poems themselves try to move toward what can't be said by finding connection with other life forms: hawks, hummingbirds, pelicans, lizards, horses, ravens, squid. By moving past linguistic walls into otherness, words become proximate to mystery and inhabit territory where expanses open and embodiment is always on the verge of transformation.

Contents:

Front Matter(pp. [i]-[vi])

Table of Contents(pp. [vii]-2)

To Be Unprotected(pp. 5-5)

My father died in the fullness of spring(pp. 6-6)

Horses Resting(pp. 7-7)

What It Sounded Like on The Way to Calvary(pp. 8-8)

Trail of One Hundred Giants(pp. 9-9)

Gods in Ruins(pp. 10-10)

The Hidden World(pp. 11-11)

A History of Lament(pp. 12-12)

Crevasse(pp. 13-13)

Portrait of my Father, Mise en Scène(pp. 14-16)

The Seer and the Seen(pp. 19-21)

Creature(pp. 22-23)

Omens(pp. 24-26)

The Afterlife of Flames(pp. 27-27)

In This Time of Parched Things(pp. 28-28)

American Megafauna(pp. 29-30)

The Day I Was Protected(pp. 33-34)

Indelible(pp. 35-38)

Afterward(pp. 40-40)

The Boy Who Went Looking(pp. 41-41)

Girls in Custody(pp. 42-42)

Paradise Motel(pp. 43-43)

Water in Standing Pools(pp. 44-44)

Winter Shoreline(pp. 45-46)

Sudden Light(pp. 49-49)

Once(pp. 50-50)

A Field of Energy Knits You to Earth(pp. 51-51)

Helianthus(pp. 52-53)

Invisibility Cloak(pp. 54-54)

What Metal Remembers(pp. 55-55)

The Way It Happened(pp. 56-56)

The Child Who Escaped(pp. 57-57)

Gravid and Amber(pp. 58-58)

What You Are to Me Sleeping(pp. 59-59)

How We Learned to Love(pp. 60-60)

Nude Descending a Staircase(pp. 61-61)

But You Already Know This(pp. 62-62)

Sky with Four Suns(pp. 65-65)

Prayer to Jacaranda(pp. 66-66)

Forgetting to Eat(pp. 67-67)

Asking the Pears(pp. 68-68)

Snow You Remember(pp. 69-69)

Late August Garden(pp. 70-71)

Velocities(pp. 72-72)

Our Father Transfigured on His 91st Birthday(pp. 73-73)

Leviathan(pp. 74-74)

Eye of the Deer(pp. 75-76)

Pelican Entangled in Kelp(pp. 77-78)

Notes(pp. 79-80)

Acknowledgments(pp. 81-82).

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: de la O, Marsha Creature

ISBN:

9780822990291

0822990296

OCLC:

1420007828