Notes for my body double

Summary: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this collection examines the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, "gar" in Old English means "spear," and an octopus can lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the light that make us human.

Record details

ISBN: 0803257996
ISBN: 9780803257993
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 78 pages).
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Nothing -- Plenitude -- Elba -- On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems -- Questions for Godzilla -- The Invisible Man Looks into a Mirror -- Beyond Repair -- Minus -- History -- Psalm in Rain -- Romance -- Negation -- At Last -- The Naked -- Daydreaming of Ghosts -- The God of Neglect, Overheard -- From the Black Lagoon -- How It Won't Be -- Seduction with Entropy -- Veneration -- Apologia -- In Praise of the Defective -- Exit Interview -- Resignation -- The Cartoonist in Hell -- My Philosophy of Other Lives -- Donald Duck's Lament 000 -- Popular Romance -- These Arms of Mine -- Such as Myself -- Poem for the National Hobo Association Poetry Contest -- Notes for My Body Double -- Questions for Silence -- For a Woman's Back -- Ode -- Perfume -- Erasure -- Poem in Which I Seek Consolation in the Etymology of a Word -- Hunger -- The Numbers Are Not In -- Love Poem -- Water -- Ptolemaic Sunset -- Lullaby -- Practice.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.