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Thieves' Latin : poems / / by Peter Jay Shippy



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Autore: Shippy Peter Jay <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Thieves' Latin : poems / / by Peter Jay Shippy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (101 p.)
Disciplina: 811.6
811/.6
Soggetto topico: American poetry
American literature
Note generali: "Winner of the Iowa poetry prize."
Nota di contenuto: America, 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
AwfrgawdsakesNiagara, 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
Page One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-NineFinally We Are No One; Inhaler
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: Thieves' Latin  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-438-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809050203321
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Serie: Iowa poetry prize.