Open Interval.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (93 pages)
- Pitt Poetry Series .
- Pitt Poetry Series .
Intro -- Contents -- 1 -- Bop: The North Star -- Icarus -- Dear John -- Reclining Nude, c. 1977, Romare Bearden -- The Buffet Dream -- Lost -- Andromeda -- RR Lyrae: Will -- Maul -- 2 -- Penelope -- Urania's Mirror -- Ithaca -- Dear John: (Winking Demon) -- RR Lyrae: Supernova -- Transit of Venus -- Body Worlds 2: In Case -- Clementines -- She'll Wait -- 3 -- Dear John: (Invention) -- Penelope -- RR Lyrae: Matter -- The Orchard -- RR Lyrae: Sign -- Black Hole -- July 2005, London -- Blues for Dame Van Winkle -- M(n)eme -- 4 -- Come Sunday -- Reclining Nude, c. 1977, Romare Bearden -- RR Lyrae: Magnetic -- RR Lyrae: Timepiece -- Poem for Amadou Diallo -- Ink -- Body Worlds 2: X Lady -- Garden -- Blackbody Radiator -- Blackbody Radiator -- Blackbody Radiator -- The Ends of Praise -- Tandem -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Drawing upon intersections of astronomy and mathematics, history, literature, and lived experience, the poems in ]Open Interval[ locate the self in the interval between body and name.Finalist, National Book Award.
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American poetry-Women authors. American poetry-African American authors.