03169oam 22005054a 450 991095679130332120240508184912.097808229832790822983273(CKB)4100000007122004(OCoLC)1061503038(MdBmJHUP)muse66745(MiAaPQ)EBC5574718(Perlego)4469217(EXLCZ)99410000000712200420181116d2018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Black Bear Inside Me /Robin Becker1st ed.Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press[2018]1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 61 pages).)Pitt poetry seriesPoems.9780822965244 0822965240 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.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 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.Pitt poetry series.American poetryPoetry.Electronic books. American poetry.811811Becker Robin1951-1095003MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910956791303321The Black Bear Inside Me4367776UNINA