02950nam 2200601 a 450 991077946760332120230617014938.00-8093-8890-11-299-05058-1(CKB)2550000000996677(EBL)1354423(OCoLC)856870165(SSID)ssj0000821728(PQKBManifestationID)11444481(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821728(PQKBWorkID)10871879(PQKB)10508409(MiAaPQ)EBC1354423(OCoLC)830840888(MdBmJHUP)muse25885(Au-PeEL)EBL1354423(CaPaEBR)ebr10654959(CaONFJC)MIL436308(EXLCZ)99255000000099667720030131d2003 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrConsolation miracle[electronic resource] /Chad DavidsonCarbondale Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University Pressc20031 online resource (78 p.)Crab Orchard award series in poetry : first book award"First book award"--P. i.0-8093-2541-1 Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; A; One; Starfish; Mushrooms; The Yawn; A Hand; The Contents of Abraham Lincoln's Pockets; To My Left Ear Canal, Deformed at Birth; Two; The Match; Alchemy; The Floating World; The Kama Sutra's Banished Illustrator; Almost Ending with a Troubadour Line; The Pear; Cleopatra's Bra; Three; This Is the Cow; Bite Your Tongue; Boxes; Cockroaches: Ars Poetica; Two Crows; The Scarecrow Odes; Scratched Retina: Memento Mori; Four; Space; Five; All the Ashtrays in Rome; The Last Decade of the Fifteenth Century; Virtus DormitivaPeople Who Jump off CliffsConsolation Miracle; Ending; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Award Series in PoetryConsolation Miracle is a book of visceral, image-driven poems that search for the miraculous in the seemingly ordinary. This collection fashions art out of artless objects as a consolation, or perhaps compensation, for their smallness. Yawns and pears, cockroaches and crows resonate against historically conflated backdrops, while our own hands seem suddenly strange as they hide themselves in our pockets, balance a burning cigarette between two fingers, or grip the gun that shot Lincoln. Other poems address the destruction of empire, the end of old Hollywood, and the hyperboCrab Orchard award series in poetry.MiraclesPoetryNaturePoetryMiraclesNature811/.6Davidson Chad1970-1472376MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779467603321Consolation miracle3685392UNINA