LEADER 03155nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910452768803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8093-8797-2 010 $a1-299-05066-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000996685 035 $a(EBL)1354433 035 $a(OCoLC)856870180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000821780 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11525228 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821780 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10879591 035 $a(PQKB)11465285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354433 035 $a(OCoLC)828869966 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25887 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354433 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10654963 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436316 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000996685 100 $a20060210d2006 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDark alphabet$b[electronic resource] /$fJennifer Maier 210 $aCarbondale $cCrab Orchard Review $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (95 p.) 225 1 $aCrab Orchard series in poetry : first book award 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-2726-0 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Happiness Is Being Danish; Love at First Sight; What It's Like; Pearls; Live Oaks, New Orleans; Fortune Cookie Triptych; Lot's Wife; Some Consolation; Vegetable Man; For Gravity and Against; How Love Forgets; Two; Waiting at the Neptune; Cherries; Hymn to St. Agnes; Sliver; Blue Willow; In a Power Outage; Eve's Menstruation; Chaise; Paris, 1936; Girlie Show; Vintage Nudes; Stone Tool; Post Hoc; Three; Blue Yodel; I Call a Librarian in Riverside; The Poetry Birds; Afternoon with Frank O'Hara; Meditation from 14A 327 $aPostcard from the Moral High GroundThe Suicides; In the City of Crows and Commuters; Modern Poetry; My Father's Platitudes; I'll Be Seeing You; Poem by Numbers; The School of Weeping; Jeffery Dahmer's Father; Falling Asleep at the Wheel; The Mergansers; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover 330 $aIn works whose subjects range from the religious to the carnal, the whimsical to the foreboding, Jennifer Maier's debut collection of poems, Dark Alphabet, explores the everyday mysteries of our common experience with humor, lucidity, and an unblinking yet compassionate eye. Whether occasioned by a song overheard on the car radio, a packet of risque? postcards from the 1920's, a conversation with a dead parent, or the behavior of ducks in mating season, each poem sets off on a journey that ranges far from its origins, arriving with the reader in a clearing at dusk 410 0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry. 606 $aCivilization, Modern$vPoetry 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 676 $a811/.6 700 $aMaier$b Jennifer$f1961-$0942417 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452768803321 996 $aDark alphabet$92126634 997 $aUNINA