02881nam 2200565Ia 450 991077755380332120230617010027.01-58729-479-6(CKB)1000000000459795(EBL)843106(OCoLC)66393286(SSID)ssj0000100335(PQKBManifestationID)11140566(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100335(PQKBWorkID)10036570(PQKB)10672175(MiAaPQ)EBC843106(MdBmJHUP)muse9281(Au-PeEL)EBL843106(CaPaEBR)ebr10354414(EXLCZ)99100000000045979520031009d2004 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrAggregate of disturbances[electronic resource] poems /by Michele GlazerIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20041 online resource (69 p.)The Iowa poetry prizeDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-878-2 Contents; 2 Blinds & a Bittern; Part 1; Wherein space is constructed that matter may reside in . . .; Matter; A Small Infidelity; Firefly; box; On So; Part 2; Translucencies, her death; Part 3; Letter; Conjunctions; Drive; Ad Infinitum; Real Life #11: Hummingbird; John Is in the Next Room; Inscape; Part 4; Echo to Narcissus; Real Life #14: Vagaries; Woman Sitting for a Portrait at a Warehouse Sale; Sonnet; The Mathematics of Fire; Feathers; Early Romance: Japanese Garden (in the heart of the city); The sculptor muses on his black-billed magpie; Valediction; Fragment's Song; Moon CasingsPart 5Map; Historic House, Astoria; Happy; The Fecundity; Home; The Infinite Imperative; Lament; Home Is a Stone HouseIn Aggregate of Disturbances, Michele Glazer confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes-the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love, and the deaths of human beings. Nature's beauty interests Glazer less than the fact that it is chaotic, amoral, redundant, charming, and indifferent to human concern-qualities that are, in these poems, turned into another kind of beauty. "The stalk was knocked flat &the allium's great lavender sphere / kissed the dirt &in the aftermath the pendulous blossomed / tip bobbed like a wand madly attempIowa poetry prize.American poetry21st centuryAmerican literatureAmerican poetryAmerican literature.811/.54Glazer Michèle1958-1464092MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777553803321Aggregate of disturbances3824295UNINA