1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453159203321

Autore

Davidson Chad <1970->

Titolo

Consolation miracle [[electronic resource] /] / Chad Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8093-8890-1

1-299-05058-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (78 p.)

Collana

Crab Orchard award series in poetry : first book award

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Miracles

Nature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First book award"--P. i.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A; One; Starfish; Mushrooms; The Yawn; A Hand; The Contents of Abraham Lincoln's Pockets; To My Left Ear Canal, Deformed at Birth; Two; The Match; Alchemy; The Floating World; The Kama Sutra's Banished Illustrator; Almost Ending with a Troubadour Line; The Pear; Cleopatra's Bra; Three; This Is the Cow; Bite Your Tongue; Boxes; Cockroaches: Ars Poetica; Two Crows; The Scarecrow Odes; Scratched Retina: Memento Mori; Four; Space; Five; All the Ashtrays in Rome; The Last Decade of the Fifteenth Century; Virtus Dormitiva

People Who Jump off CliffsConsolation Miracle; Ending; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry

Sommario/riassunto

Consolation Miracle is a book of visceral, image-driven poems that search for the miraculous in the seemingly ordinary. This collection fashions art out of artless objects as a consolation, or perhaps compensation, for their smallness. Yawns and pears, cockroaches and crows resonate against historically conflated backdrops, while our own hands seem suddenly strange as they hide themselves in our pockets, balance a burning cigarette between two fingers, or grip the gun that shot Lincoln. Other poems address the destruction of empire, the end of old Hollywood, and the hyperbo



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910695087803321

Autore

Viterbo Pedro

Titolo

BOREAS AFM-08 ECMWF hourly surface and upper air data for the SSA and NSA [[electronic resource] /] / P. Viterbo and A. Betts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Greenbelt, Md. : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, , [2000]

Descrizione fisica

1 volume : digital, PDF file

Collana

Technical report series on the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) ; ; 16

NASA/TM ; ; 2000-209891, v. 16

Altri autori (Persone)

BettsAlan

Soggetti

Air land interactions

Boundary layers

Data acquisition

Forests

Weather forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on April 13, 2006).

"June 2000."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.