Raw goods inventory / / Emily Rosko

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816829603321
• Autore: Rosko Emily <1979->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-58729-674-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (95 p.)
• Collana: Winner of the Iowa poetry prize
• Disciplina: 811/.6
• Soggetti: American poetry - 21st century; American literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, death, and disappointment. Idiomatic, raw, and skewed i