LEADER 02881nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910777553803321 005 20230617010027.0 010 $a1-58729-479-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000459795 035 $a(EBL)843106 035 $a(OCoLC)66393286 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100335 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140566 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100335 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10036570 035 $a(PQKB)10672175 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843106 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9281 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843106 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354414 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000459795 100 $a20031009d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAggregate of disturbances$b[electronic resource] $epoems /$fby Michele Glazer 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (69 p.) 225 1 $aThe Iowa poetry prize 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-878-2 327 $aContents; 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 Casings 327 $aPart 5Map; Historic House, Astoria; Happy; The Fecundity; Home; The Infinite Imperative; Lament; Home Is a Stone House 330 $aIn Aggregate of Disturbances, Michele Glazer confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes-the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love, and the deaths of human beings. Nature's beauty interests Glazer less than the fact that it is chaotic, amoral, redundant, charming, and indifferent to human concern-qualities that are, in these poems, turned into another kind of beauty. "The stalk was knocked flat &the allium's great lavender sphere / kissed the dirt &in the aftermath the pendulous blossomed / tip bobbed like a wand madly attemp 410 0$aIowa poetry prize. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century 606 $aAmerican literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aGlazer$b Miche?le$f1958-$01464092 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777553803321 996 $aAggregate of disturbances$93824295 997 $aUNINA