Details

Subject(s)

• Poetry [Browse]
• American poetry [Browse]

Series

• Iowa poetry prize. [More in this series]
• The Iowa poetry prize

Summary note

Whether wandering the paths of the imagination, driving through sparsely populated countryside, or listening for the voices of animals, Joseph Campana's poemsattend to the ways we are indelibly marked by habitat. Shot full of accidental attachments and reluctant transience, Natural Selectionsproduces from vibrant contradiction potent song. In poems both lyric and expansive, Natural Selections finds in the simplicity and strangeness of middle America a complex metaphysics of place and an uncanny perspective reminiscent of the landscapes of Grant

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Crow; Ohio 229; Natural Selections; Owl; Omen; Hare; Rural Morning; Fawn; Hunting the Beast; Kokosing; Creek; Kokosing; Homer, OH; Eagle; Ohio 308; Cardinal; Winesburg, OH; Crane; Finch; Sheltering Bough; Blue Heron; Wright; Jay; Democracy in Ohio; Sparrow; Bat; Rural Evening; Wolf; Spring Comes to Ohio; Ohio 661; Ladybug; Firefly; Snake; Rural Night; Crows; March (1939)

ISBN

1-60938-092-4

OCLC

• 793166886
• 783529725

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