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Autore |
Rosko Emily <1979-> |
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Titolo |
Raw goods inventory [[electronic resource] /] / Emily Rosko |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (95 p.) |
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Collana |
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Winner of the Iowa poetry prize |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry - 21st century |
American literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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I: Clearing the yard -- Aquatic -- What's discovered is wiped out -- Vigilance -- What closes -- Wave factor -- Sketch -- Any good scientist could tell you -- Clockwork -- Send word to the glue factory -- A chameleon -- II: Tongues -- Ventriloquized bodies -- The toy divine(s) -- Pigskin -- Insulation -- The dandelions went -- Conduct -- Three constructions -- Lives of astrologers -- Hot air -- Conniption fit -- At the sushi arcade -- Raw goods inventory -- III: Hanging out the wash -- A sorry concept, that town -- Dzien dobry -- In the land of sleeping people -- Entry -- Sleeping bear dunes -- Before surgery -- Episodes -- Bundle -- Pall -- Telluric -- Sanctuary -- IV: Spare -- An opening onto -- Spectrum -- Elephant -- Less art, more monkeys -- Resort -- Glossitic -- Our lady of appearances -- Blind feel -- Occasionally she, you -- Slip -- Measures -- Deduction -- Even before your elbow knocked over the glass. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Raw Goods Inventory, Emily Rosko gives us a poetic inventory in a virtuosic display of voices and accents. The poems come with sharp elbows and knees; they are nomadic, acquisitive, dispersive, and diffractive. More elementally, Rosko's poems contain the scattered bric-a-brac of the imagination, with goods that range from a dud egg to genetic hybrids, from Marian iconography to pigs at a state fair. She offers honest embodiments of anxiety, awkwardness, and boredom, as she also recasts with wit and grace the standard poetic fare: love, |
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death, and disappointment. Idiomatic, raw, and skewed i |
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