LEADER 03295nam 2200457 450 001 9910817353103321 005 20230424114245.0 010 $a9781680031515$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9781680031508 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30353017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30353017 035 $a(CKB)26053252500041 035 $a(OCoLC)1022085628 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_110056 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926053252500041 100 $a20230424d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBecause a fire in our heads $epoems /$fJay Udall 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aHuntsville, Texas :$cTexas Review Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (106 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Udall, Jay Because a Fire in Our Heads Piraí : Texas Review Press,c2018 9781680031508 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aBecause a fire in our heads: The well room -- Because a fire in our heads -- Accompaniment -- Fledgling -- Timed dive -- Tools of the trade -- The hidden grave -- Seen -- A certain confusion -- Camerado -- Lick and stroke -- Head massage -- Outside -- Extreme home makeover -- Blessings of the beasts: The following tiger -- Blessing of the beasts -- Door in the stone -- The rule of attraction -- Love bugs -- Embodied -- Passengers -- Before the harvest -- Snakes and tortoise -- To feed the feral -- To an armadillo -- Sleeping with the snake -- Lost feather, little wing -- Showing forth -- The gathering. 327 $aLeave-taking: Before leaving -- Shhhh -- Company -- Leave-taking -- Reading blind -- Grief songs -- For the making -- Anonymous -- The further definition -- Who travels in the ground -- Traveling here: Sometimes a bridge -- Exodus -- Rest area (no facilities) -- Passage -- Traveling here -- The oracle at Amarillo -- I slip on a pair of water moccasins -- Strike and harvest -- Jesus walks in blue above Louisiana -- In isolation -- Personal -- Louisiana 1 South in winter -- Sister of silence and vacant wind -- After the Chauvin Sculpture Garden -- Standby -- What returns: Meteor shower -- What returns -- After the murder of an old friend -- A faltering shelter -- The witness under cross-examination -- This dirt speaks -- Leaf -- Where it begins -- Void -- Skinned -- Night rises, seeping -- Walking home -- Notes -- Dedication and thanks. 330 $aThese poems explore desire in its many forms--sensual, emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual--confronting an infinite cosmos, existential separateness and vulnerability, violence, injustice, and death. This book enacts a running conversation with American cultural history, neuroscience, particle physics, religion, baseball, zoology, other poems and poets, jazz, blues, and zydeco, ranging through time and across New Mexico, Nevada, Louisiana, Virginia, and points in between and beyond. 606 $aAmerican poetry 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a891.9 700 $aUdall$b Jay$f1959-$01671435 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910817353103321 996 $aBecause a fire in our heads$94033987 997 $aUNINA