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UNINA9910828035203321 |
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Autore |
Becker Robin <1951-> |
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Titolo |
The Black Bear Inside Me / / Robin Becker |
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Pittsburgh, Pa., : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 61 pages).) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry |
Poetry |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Part I -- Clearing -- Moment of Amazement -- Two Dogs, One Wise -- Elegy for the Science Teacher -- Bluefish, 1970 -- Coppice and Pollard -- Yankee Barn Sale -- Reading Music -- Scottish Melodies -- Hearing the News -- Whitetail Spring -- The Black Bear Inside Me -- Part II -- Theory -- Alex, an Obituary -- Hummingbird -- The Collection of the Canter -- True Blue Communications Man -- Missing -- Security Clearance -- The Wages of Sin -- Ballroom -- At the Memorial -- On the Grand Canal -- Provisional Ode -- Part III -- Men as Friends -- Semblance -- The Broker -- The Annual Performance Review -- Taken into Account -- The Barcelona Inside Me -- Rodeo Ben -- Make It Plain -- Where the Unfairness of the World Resides -- Blast Off -- Words with Friends -- The Fix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family "sacrifices one member,/ as plants surrender leaves in times of drought." Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in |
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wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present. |
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