TY - BOOK AU - Nordgren,Sarah Rose TI - Best Bones T2 - Pitt Poetry Series SN - 9780822980230 AV - PS617 .N673 2014 U1 - 813.6 PY - 2014/// CY - PIttsburgh PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - American poetry-21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Fable -- Part 1 -- Still Birth -- Temporary River -- Remarks on the Morning's Work in Winter -- The Wife -- The Mistress -- A Bathing Gown a Girl Can Make -- The Only House in the Neighborhood -- The Lord Is Risen Indeed -- Sisters -- White Sheep. White Cloud. -- Gentle Doctor -- 1917 -- Part 2 -- Exhumation -- My Grandmother's Belongings -- Mary -- To My Daughter -- Surrogate -- Instructions for Marriage by Capture -- Wallflower -- Instructions for Marriage by Service -- By Jove -- Our Furry Friends -- The Performance -- Letter from a New England Girl -- Charmed -- Your Server for This Evening -- Laying the Cloth, Et Cetera -- Employment -- Blackfly -- Possible Names for a Country House -- August Postcard -- My Dearest Doll -- Remembering Your Young Love -- Part 3 -- Gaikotsu -- Love Poem -- Kids These Days -- Tending the Flocks (England, 1790) -- Prion -- Don't -- The Best Bones -- Home -- Pajamas -- Ophelia -- The Artist's Boy -- The New Family -- About the Hammer -- The Monastery -- Calendar -- When You Are Dead -- Blue Whale -- Notes -- Acknowledgments N2 - Winner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeThe poems of Best Bones allude to landscapes of history, fable, and childhood myth, yet are fraught with modern day predicaments that create an atmosphere at once familiar and strange, playful and haunted, and verging on disaster. With imaginative intelligence, Nordgren maintains a snow-globe control of the whole scene UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2041559 ER -