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In Praise of Falling.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pitt Poetry SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (89 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822978282
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In Praise of FallingDDC classification:
  • 811/.6
LOC classification:
  • PS3604
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- I. Theories -- It's not Armageddon -- Atlantis -- Don't Miss It -- Bernal Heights -- "A Soldier's Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970" -- Theories -- Prayer for Sleep -- American Robin -- Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head -- On the first day of class -- Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin -- II. Changing Room -- The Storyteller's Daughter -- Killing -- The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade -- Chosen -- Stars -- The Hill -- Clarissa's Great Aunt -- Changing Room -- Triangle Tattoo -- Hard Labor -- III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Foundling -- Nightmare Predicting Change -- Recurring -- Junk Shop Magic -- True -- Afterbirth -- Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Other Nights -- Revisited -- Narrative -- IV. Say Yes -- In Praise of Falling -- Meteorology -- The Swimmer -- Wetlands -- Don't Ask Me -- When -- If -- Q to the 6 Train -- Creature -- Dark Magic -- Getting It Right This Time -- Say Yes -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeEnacting the Zen proverb "fall down seven times, get up eight," this collection explores the ways we fall--through disillusionment, disappointment, and plain, old-fashioned mistakes, and the ways we rise up--out of personal debacles, unfortunate circumstances, family legacies, and collective struggles.
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Intro -- Contents -- I. Theories -- It's not Armageddon -- Atlantis -- Don't Miss It -- Bernal Heights -- "A Soldier's Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970" -- Theories -- Prayer for Sleep -- American Robin -- Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head -- On the first day of class -- Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin -- II. Changing Room -- The Storyteller's Daughter -- Killing -- The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade -- Chosen -- Stars -- The Hill -- Clarissa's Great Aunt -- Changing Room -- Triangle Tattoo -- Hard Labor -- III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Foundling -- Nightmare Predicting Change -- Recurring -- Junk Shop Magic -- True -- Afterbirth -- Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep -- Other Nights -- Revisited -- Narrative -- IV. Say Yes -- In Praise of Falling -- Meteorology -- The Swimmer -- Wetlands -- Don't Ask Me -- When -- If -- Q to the 6 Train -- Creature -- Dark Magic -- Getting It Right This Time -- Say Yes -- Acknowledgments.

Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeEnacting the Zen proverb "fall down seven times, get up eight," this collection explores the ways we fall--through disillusionment, disappointment, and plain, old-fashioned mistakes, and the ways we rise up--out of personal debacles, unfortunate circumstances, family legacies, and collective struggles.

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