LEADER 03081oam 22004694a 450 001 9910828035203321 005 20240508184912.0 010 $a0-8229-8327-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000007122004 035 $a(OCoLC)1061503038 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66745 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5574718 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007122004 100 $a20181116d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Black Bear Inside Me /$fRobin Becker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPittsburgh, Pa. $cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press$d[2018] 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 61 pages).) 225 1 $aPitt poetry series 300 $aPoems. 311 $a0-8229-6524-0 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Part I -- Clearing -- Moment of Amazement -- Two Dogs, One Wise -- Elegy for the Science Teacher -- Bluefish, 1970 -- Coppice and Pollard -- Yankee Barn Sale -- Reading Music -- Scottish Melodies -- Hearing the News -- Whitetail Spring -- The Black Bear Inside Me -- Part II -- Theory -- Alex, an Obituary -- Hummingbird -- The Collection of the Canter -- True Blue Communications Man -- Missing -- Security Clearance -- The Wages of Sin -- Ballroom -- At the Memorial -- On the Grand Canal -- Provisional Ode -- Part III -- Men as Friends -- Semblance -- The Broker -- The Annual Performance Review -- Taken into Account -- The Barcelona Inside Me -- Rodeo Ben -- Make It Plain -- Where the Unfairness of the World Resides -- Blast Off -- Words with Friends -- The Fix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments. 330 $aBecker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family "sacrifices one member,/ as plants surrender leaves in times of drought." Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present. 410 0$aPitt poetry series. 606 $aAmerican poetry 608 $aPoetry. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a811 676 $a811 700 $aBecker$b Robin$f1951-$01095003 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828035203321 996 $aThe Black Bear Inside Me$93987350 997 $aUNINA