Alluvial cities
by Hannan, Chris, (Christopher M.)
The poems in Alluvial Cities are drawn from this layered landscape's geology and history, its people and language, and the kindred ties between earth and water, flesh and blood. DEUCALIONIDS The waters broke from the void before first light, a divinity ripping through the trembling flesh of marshes and the levees' old clay thighs, covering every mile of St. Bernard Parish. Houses with their cement slabs have floated light as the rinds of watermelons you ate as a boy and chucked into Lake Cather…
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- Full title :Alluvial cities / Christopher M. Hannan.
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The poems in Alluvial Cities are drawn from this layered landscape's geology and history, its people and language, and the kindred ties between earth and water, flesh and blood. DEUCALIONIDS The waters broke from the void before first light, a divinity ripping through the trembling flesh of marshes and the levees' old clay thighs, covering every mile of St. Bernard Parish. Houses with their cement slabs have floated light as the rinds of watermelons you ate as a boy and chucked into Lake Catherine, swelled to overflowing by the god that surged into the Rigolets estuary and left an afterbir.
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- Publication Date:2015.
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Texas Review Press
- Place of Publication:Huntsville, Texas
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781680030235, 168003023X
- oclc:ocn927073904
- LC Classification:PS3608.A715736
- Dewey Decimal:811/.6
Table of Contents
Salt water intrusion -- Trinities -- Altars -- Hymns -- Taxonomies.
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