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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971824603321

Autore

Alexander Pamela <1948->

Titolo

Inland : poems / / by Pamela Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1997

ISBN

9781587290022

1587290022

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (80 p.)

Collana

Iowa poetry prize

Disciplina

811/.54

811.54

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th 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; ONE; Down on the Farm; Impromptu; Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor; Mt, Auburn Owl; Jugglebirds Abroad; Seminar; From the Book of Foxes; My Mother and the Myriad Things; Soon; Manners; My Brother's Back; Nots; Accidentals; TWO; Fogbow; Souvenir; Mt. Pinatubo; Fortune; Look Here; Northeast Suite; Origin; Passage with Owls; Slip; Ease; Spill; Bog at Black Pond; Understory; THREE; The Rode; Lettered Olives; Sonoran; The Comma a Portrait; Waking; In the House You Built; Foxlight; Swallowing the Anchor; House Song; What We Need

Sommario/riassunto

Pamela Alexander's poetry is characterized by inventive language, scrupulous accuracy of imagery, and a winning fusion of the comic and the deeply serious. Her subjects vary as widely as her settings, which range from the New Hampshire woods to the Arizona desert. A family life eccentric to the point of chaos, close observations of wildlife, and coastal sailing are among the poet's topics.