Details

Subject(s)

• American poetry [Browse]
• American literature [Browse]

Series

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

Summary note

"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.

Notes

"Winner of the Iowa poetry prize."

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

ISBN

1-58729-438-9

OCLC

56109464

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