LEADER 02950nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910779467603321 005 20230617014938.0 010 $a0-8093-8890-1 010 $a1-299-05058-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000996677 035 $a(EBL)1354423 035 $a(OCoLC)856870165 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000821728 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11444481 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821728 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10871879 035 $a(PQKB)10508409 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354423 035 $a(OCoLC)830840888 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25885 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354423 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10654959 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436308 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000996677 100 $a20030131d2003 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConsolation miracle$b[electronic resource] /$fChad Davidson 210 $aCarbondale $cCrab Orchard Review $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (78 p.) 225 1 $aCrab Orchard award series in poetry : first book award 300 $a"First book award"--P. i. 311 $a0-8093-2541-1 327 $aCover; 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 Dormitiva 327 $aPeople Who Jump off CliffsConsolation Miracle; Ending; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry 330 $aConsolation Miracle is a book of visceral, image-driven poems that search for the miraculous in the seemingly ordinary. This collection fashions art out of artless objects as a consolation, or perhaps compensation, for their smallness. Yawns and pears, cockroaches and crows resonate against historically conflated backdrops, while our own hands seem suddenly strange as they hide themselves in our pockets, balance a burning cigarette between two fingers, or grip the gun that shot Lincoln. Other poems address the destruction of empire, the end of old Hollywood, and the hyperbo 410 0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry. 606 $aMiracles$vPoetry 606 $aNature$vPoetry 615 0$aMiracles 615 0$aNature 676 $a811/.6 700 $aDavidson$b Chad$f1970-$01472376 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779467603321 996 $aConsolation miracle$93685392 997 $aUNINA