Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 89 pages ; 19 cm.
A haunting debut that is simultaneously dreamlike and visceral, vulnerable and redemptive, and risks the painful rewards of emotional honesty.
Series: Lannan literary selections
Contents:
Threshold -- Telemachus -- Trojan -- Aubade with burning city -- A little closer to the edge -- Immigrant Haibun -- Always & forever -- My father writes from prison -- Headfirst -- In Newport I watch my father lay his cheek to a beached dolphon's wet back -- The gift -- Self-portrait as exit wounds -- Thanksgiving 2006 -- Homewrecker -- Of thee I sing -- Because it's summer -- Into the breach -- Anaphora as coping mechanism -- Seventh circle of earth -- On earth we're briefly gorgeous -- Eurydice -- Untitled (blue, green, and brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952 -- Queen under the hill -- Torso of air -- Prayer for the newly damned -- To my father/To my future son -- Deto(nation) -- Ode to masturbation -- Notebook fragments -- The smallest measure -- Daily bread -- Odysseus redux -- Logophobia -- Someday I'll love Ocean Vuong -- Devotion.
ISBN:
9781556594953 (pbk.)
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Poetry Vuo | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/9/2024) |
LITERATURE Poetry Vuo | Southeast | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/11/2024) |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 87).