Details

Subject(s)

• American poetry [Browse]

Series

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

Summary note

Strung throughout the book are poems based on the Scottish photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, a historic photographic document. Pettit uses these pioneering images as the basis for his poetic dreaming, and the result is a poignant, integrated sequence of highly moving poems, studded between other vivid lyrics.

Notes

Series statement from jacket.

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; Woman Jumping from Rock to Rock; Sunday Stroll; Evening on a Canadian Lake; Pavlov's Dog; So Long, Tuscaloosa; The Flight Path; Man Performing Back Somersault; Men Wrestling; No Birds; Sparrow of Española; The Uncompahgre Range; Many Buddhists; Mighty Sebastian Bach; Los Alamos Rush Hour; Sparrow Rousant; The Beyond; Elderly Man Lifting Log; Woman Turning and Lifting Train; Driving Lesson; Virginia Evening; Home Again; Louisiana New Year; National Geographic; Woman Emptying Bucket of Water on Seated Companion
• Man Walking Downstairs Backwards, Turning, Walking Away While Carrying RockWillows; Astral Life; Valentine Show at the Lingerie Shop; Petting Zoo; March Thaw; House Move; Legless Boy Climbing in and out of Chair; Man Shadowboxing; Bad Back; The Fox Hunt; Furnace without End; Boat-tailed Grackles; Footsteps; Star Route, Box 2; Full Cry; Girl Walking Towards Woman, Carrying Flower; Cardinal Points

ISBN

1-58729-187-8

OCLC

44964970

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