Glaciology: poems
"Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier" begins "Shattered Bio," the first poem in this collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the "squeak of pine trees in a forest" to "pinwheel, the baby's hand," the poem provides a precise way of seeing how layers of tenderness and danger melt into one another, inhabiting the same world. At the center of the book, the eighteen-part title poem "Glaciology" takes readers to the core of misunderstandin…
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- Full title :Glaciology : poems / by Jeffrey Skinner.
Summary
"Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier" begins "Shattered Bio," the first poem in this collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the "squeak of pine trees in a forest" to "pinwheel, the baby's hand," the poem provides a precise way of seeing how layers of tenderness and danger melt into one another, inhabiting the same world. At the center of the book, the eighteen-part title poem "Glaciology" takes readers to the core of misunderstandings as it juxtaposes the work of a glaciologist with fractured language, misread cues, and a literalness that defies conventional explanation
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- Publication Date:©2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Crab Orchard Review, Southern Illinois University Press
- Place of Publication:Carbondale
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
Notes
"Open competition award."
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (82 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780809332748, 0809332744
- oclc:ocn861536327
- LC Classification:PS3569.K498
- Dewey Decimal:811/.54
Table of Contents
Shattered Bio ; Queue ; I've Been Working on the Railroad ; Ode to a Photographer ; Frame ; The Wedding at Ram Island ; The Children's Table ; Exit Row ; Kafka, Women ; Coffee ; de Kooning ; Terrors of the Night ; The Mission ; Self-Made ; You Need a Subject for the Sun to Rise ; Signs & Portents ; Theodicy ; Jonquillity ; Reunion ; The End of Striving ; The Barber -- Glaciology -- The Deal ; The Fly ; Icon ; When We're Done Writing about the Self ; Give Me Poland ; Corrections ; Vintage Clock ; Event Horizon ; Stutter; Votive ; Prayer for My Daughters ; All Things Move toward Disorder except the Newly Created ; Throw It All Away.
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