Details

Subject(s)

• American poetry—20th century [Browse]

Series

Iowa poetry prize. [More in this series]

Summary note

Pamela Alexander's poetry is characterized by inventive language, scrupulous accuracy of imagery, and a winning fusion of the comic and the deeply serious. Her subjects vary as widely as her settings, which range from the New Hampshire woods to the Arizona desert. A family life eccentric to the point of chaos, close observations of wildlife, and coastal sailing are among the poet's topics.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Awards

"Winner of the Iowa poetry prize"

Language note

English

Contents

CONTENTS; ONE; Down on the Farm; Impromptu; Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor; Mt, Auburn Owl; Jugglebirds Abroad; Seminar; From the Book of Foxes; My Mother and the Myriad Things; Soon; Manners; My Brother's Back; Nots; Accidentals; TWO; Fogbow; Souvenir; Mt. Pinatubo; Fortune; Look Here; Northeast Suite; Origin; Passage with Owls; Slip; Ease; Spill; Bog at Black Pond; Understory; THREE; The Rode; Lettered Olives; Sonoran; The Comma a Portrait; Waking; In the House You Built; Foxlight; Swallowing the Anchor; House Song; What We Need

ISBN

• 9781587290022
• 1587290022

OCLC

44958934

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