Her mouth as souvenir / Heather June Gibbons ; with a foreword by Jericho Brown.

Her mouth as souvenir /

"In a startling voice propelled by desire and desperation on the verge of laughter, these poems leap from the mundane to the sublime, from begging to bravado, from despair to reverie, revealing the power that comes from hanging on by a thread. Poet Heather June Gibbons conjures belief in the ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibbons, Heather June (Author)
Other Authors: Brown, Jericho (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Series:Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry.
Subjects:
Poetry > Women authors.
American poetry > 21st century.
Poetry
poetry.
Poetry.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Smell the moxie
  • Exploded view
  • Poppy
  • Folk song
  • Event
  • My people
  • The idea of
  • Dusting
  • Assistant
  • Muse the drudge
  • Lives of the prophets
  • In sotto voce
  • Winds you hear before you feel
  • Self-portrait as tongue
  • Crossing
  • Sore song
  • Sore song
  • An evening of yes music
  • Origami
  • Sore song
  • So far gone
  • Sore song
  • Longest song
  • Sore song
  • Memory is a bull market
  • Let's pretend
  • Grimace
  • Midsummer singalong
  • Anthem
  • Sore song
  • Passengers
  • Do not leave this box
  • Ostinato
  • I-beam
  • Elegy
  • Nature
  • Vantage
  • Waymark
  • Fill this box with flames
  • Bobby reads Chekhov
  • The brain may disassemble itself in sleep
  • Pointillist
  • Desire lines
  • The green rose up
  • Self-portrait as elegy.

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