LEADER 03263nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910816489903321 005 20240405095048.0 010 $a1-60223-160-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000151377 035 $a(EBL)1820983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000692596 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12277168 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000692596 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10637187 035 $a(PQKB)11185188 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1820983 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1820983 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10538018 035 $a(OCoLC)893740997 035 $a(OCoLC)778565702 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110961 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000151377 100 $a20110830d2012 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rabbits could sing$b[electronic resource] $epoems /$fby Amber Flora Thomas 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aFairbanks $cUniversity of Alaska Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (81 p.) 225 1 $aAlaska literary series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60223-159-1 327 $aTable of Contents; Part I; In August; Swarm; To a Reader; The Chipped Bowl; Take Off the Yellow Slicker; Three Windows; Migraine Confessional; When You Rise You Do Not Drown; Serenade; Woman on Shore; Penny's Gallon; Summer Mold; Part II; Listen; Conversation with the Sculptor; Self-Portrait in the Tide; Come in from the Sky; Black Dog; Killing the Rabbit: Ars Poetica; Thinking in Front of a Mirror; Era of a Happy Heart; Biology Lesson; Here; More Light Because Her Shadow Shook; In the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Membrane; After; Braid; Part III; Dear Reader; Then You Fled the Room. 327 $aHeart with Interior ViewTwo Horses; Hood; The Killed Rabbit; Inside the Pleiades; Spider; Bull Frog; Unattended; Sometimes Oranges; Regarding Mercy; Part IV; Prayer Found in Water Pouring Down a Bus Window; Ultrasound Aubade; Cavity in the Rubenesque Fac?ade; April Spill-Off; Parenting the Void; Magician; Bird Leaving a Branch; Meditation on Four West; From Her Lips to God's Ears; Sunbathing; Girl in the Woods; Hare in My Garden; Pelvis with the Distance; The Get Away; Biographical Note. 330 $aThe poems included in The Rabbits Could Sing delve farther into territory that Amber Flora Thomas visited in her prize-winning book Eye of Water, showing even more clearly how "the seam has been pulled so far open on the past" that "the dress will never close." Here, the poem acts not as a body in itself but as a garb drawn around the here and now. Loss, longing, and violation are sustenance to a spirit jarred from its animal flesh and torn apart, unsettling the reader with surprising images that are difficult to forget. The poems in The Rabbits Could Sing invite the reader into a world 410 0$aAlaska literary series. 606 $aAmerican poetry$xWomen authors 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xWomen authors. 676 $a811/.6 700 $aThomas$b Amber Flora$01697005 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816489903321 996 $aThe rabbits could sing$94077393 997 $aUNINA