LEADER 03250nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910777590203321 005 20230617042236.0 010 $a1-58729-438-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447527 035 $a(EBL)837098 035 $a(OCoLC)56109464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258544 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235454 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258544 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10256861 035 $a(PQKB)10632970 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837098 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12527 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837098 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354468 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447527 100 $a20021003d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThieves' Latin$b[electronic resource] $epoems /$fby Peter Jay Shippy 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (101 p.) 225 1 $aThe Iowa poetry prize 300 $a"Winner of the Iowa poetry prize." 311 $a0-87745-840-5 327 $aAmerica, USA; Part One; The Special People; Crocodiles Shed Their Tears When Devouring Francis Bacon; Why Is the Crow a Harmful Bird?; Stars by Children; When Alice Coltrane Calls; Transgenic Laureate; Ether Talk; Two Stans Eat; M axEr nst; Bunnyman, an Elegy; No One Understands Who I Really Am So I Will Wear CopperCladding, Oxidize, Turn Green and Blend in with the Trees; Reykjavik; Me My Dog and Our Pornography; The Skidding of Tottie Coughdrop; Flying on Instruments; Weathercast; Part Two; Was Postmodern; Ack-Ack; Nauman's PsalmBook; The Bowling Pin Forest; Buzzcocked; Sehnsuch 327 $aAwfrgawdsakesNiagara, Niagara; Eskimo Is Lucien; Walking with Planck; What Is an Antidote?; Novemberite; Dik-Dik; Alack; Fink; Not the Kind of Poem Found in the Japanese Editionof Tiger Beat or the Ballad of the Bodiless Man; Alien Immigrant; Crack; Part Three; Little Poe Station; America: Before the Last War; Dogs Resembling Their Owners; Caught between the Twisted Stars; Portrait of God on Work Release; It Ain't Boasting If . . .; Mandelstam Space Station Down; The Baudelaire Hospital & Grill; Me I Disconnect from You; Earth Is a Lonely Town; Architecture and Morality 327 $aPage One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-NineFinally We Are No One; Inhaler 330 $a"Ah, writ happens." Like the con men who rely on thieves' Latin to ply their trade, the poems in Peter Jay Shippy's award-winning collection don't play well with other poems. They are difficult. They rave. They are unsettling and blunt. They crash cars and ride tsunamis and hitch rides on tugs. They also provide a contemporary, ironic, and tender view of America, all the while layering wordplay, cleverness, and sentiment. 410 0$aIowa poetry prize. 606 $aAmerican poetry 606 $aAmerican literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a811.6 676 $a811/.6 700 $aShippy$b Peter Jay$f1961-$01085010 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777590203321 996 $aThieves' Latin$93725042 997 $aUNINA