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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787867703321

Autore

Peary Alexandria

Titolo

Control bird alt delete. / / by Alexandria Peary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa : , : University Of Iowa Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-60938-255-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize

Disciplina

811.608

Soggetti

American poetry - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part 1; Part 2; Fridge; Like That; Deconstructing New England; Oh, Massachusetts; Lilacs as Chart; Lilacs; A Decal of Lilacs; After the Flute Lesson, a Unicorn Rainbow Sticker Walking into the Birch Forest; Bath Toys Sit in the Description; The Lottery of Winged Leaves; Bird Saver; Surveillance meteor; Exquisite Corpse; Come On, Over Here; A Dream Splashed with Ropes; A Dream Splashed with Ropes (2); Go-Cart Inside a Fingerprint; Incidence of Meditation Hallucinogenous with Site-Specific Factors Involved in Reversible Day 1; "In hallways made of dashes"; The Ceiling; Song-Maze

A Lake in the HandBird Finder; Bird Pattern; Bird Game; Composition Blue No. 2 (2012); Brite Motes; A Strip of Woods at the Back of the Mind; Klee Carpets; Outsider Art; Lawn Ornaments, Robins, Ode to Clocks; Bird Insert; Winter Wonder World; Flora to Fauna; The Coil; Price; Tassel; Hallucinogenous Bullfighter, 1970; The Page-Dream; Ingredients; The Neighbors; Gift Basket; Spring Version; Bob's Keys to the Kingdom; Into the Diurnal Proofing Oven; Q & A; Yard Sale; Notes; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

"'Go play!' advises Peary in her third collection, and we do, with 'a tassel of rain,' with 'dove-colored sounds' and 'starter castles.' The topos is New England archaeology; it's Colorforms and Legos; Charley Harper landscapes become interiors; we are delighted to already find ourselves where we couldn't possibly get to."-Caroline Knox, author, Flemish: Poems In Control Bird Alt Delete, the reader is invited to explore



strange landscapes: some based on the ruins of New England and others following the architectural prints of the unconscious. The reader walks through