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Subject(s)

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

Series

• Iowa Poetry Prize [More in this series]
• Iowa poetry prize

Summary note

In thrilling poems of metamorphosis and birth, death and dissolution, Stephanie Pippin's debut collection returns us to a world unshorn of wildness. Delivering accident and hunger, love and grief, nature in these poems is beautiful and brutal, "a hellish magnificence" that both invites and denies the meanings we project onto it. Refusing the domesticated comfort of our usual myths, Pippin reminds us of our place as creatures among others in a world where "what isn't dead / is dying," and where the thrill of predatory flight commingles with the desperation of the prey.Th

Notes

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (page 53).

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; Afterimage; The Messenger; King Vulture; January; Meteor Shower Peaks; Dwelling; The Dove; Morning; Tether; The Kill; Stork; Hatch; Open Season; Lake; Lone Elk; Red Pines; Brazil, 1832; The Peregrine; A Nest; Diving Horse; Homecoming; Shiloh; Iron Bridge; Raven; Phaedra; Gone; Riverlands; What I Wanted; Hero; And he sang he would tear her to pieces; Florida; Pinion; Summer; Eyas; Propagation; Flown; Elegy; Iris; Candling Eggs; Notes

ISBN

1-60938-165-3

OCLC

835140651

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