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Free clean fill dirt : poems / Caryl Pagel.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pagel, Caryl, author.
Series:
Akron series in poetry.
Akron Series in Poetry Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--21st century.
American poetry.
Ecology--Poetry.
Ecology.
Landscapes--Poetry.
Landscapes.
Poetry.
Cleveland (Ohio)--Poetry.
Cleveland (Ohio).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (117 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2022]
Summary:
Free Clean Fill Dirt, Caryl Pagel's third book of poetry, is a study in disruption, interruption, and ruin, tracing geological and historical palimpsests via caesura, fragmentation, echo, and humor. In these rigorous, formally adventurous poems Pagel calls upon the playful, unsettling sonic sensibilities of writers such as Lorine Niedecker, Russell Atkins, Frank O'Hara, and H. D., as she ties the music of place to personal inquiry: "There is / something in the way / of the thought," the narrator posits: is it sound, desire, violence, or image? Pagel dwells in the anti-ordinary ordinary strata of Midwestern mythologies, emergencies, landscapes, and crises. Using a blend of ecopoetic, visual, and archival modes, Free Clean Fill Dirt is a collection of poems making intimacy of deep time and vanitas of vision.
Contents:
Cover
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Severance Center
Ordinary Strata (Cleveland)
Ordinary Strata (Palmer Square)
Saturday
Windows I
The Vanitas Fly
Straw
Ordinary Strata (Cottage Grove)
Ordinary Strata (Coventry)
Notes on Notes on Thought and Vision
Ordinary Strata (Appledore Island)
Wilderness
Windows II
Lakeview Cemetery
A History of the Color Orange
Ordinary Strata (Lake Erie)
Ordinary Strata (Lamberton Road)
Ordinary Strata (Lake Superior)
Windows III
Report Cards
Ordinary Strata (Chicago)
It Is with a Pattern as with a Fortress
Photo Credits
Acknowledgments.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
"Cover design by Amy Freels"--Title page verso
Poems.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Pagel, Caryl Free Clean Fill Dirt
ISBN:
9781629221465
1629221465
9781629221472
1629221473
OCLC:
1345513295

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