TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Robin TI - The Black Bear Inside Me T2 - Pitt Poetry Series SN - 9780822983279 AV - PS3552 U1 - 811 PY - 2018/// CY - PIttsburgh PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - American poetry KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Part I -- Clearing -- Moment of Amazement -- Two Dogs, One Wise -- Elegy for the Science Teacher -- Bluefish, 1970 -- Coppice and Pollard -- Yankee Barn Sale -- Reading Music -- Scottish Melodies -- Hearing the News -- Whitetail Spring -- The Black Bear Inside Me -- Part II -- Theory -- Alex, an Obituary -- Hummingbird -- The Collection of the Canter -- True Blue Communications Man -- Missing -- Security Clearance -- The Wages of Sin -- Ballroom -- At the Memorial -- On the Grand Canal -- Provisional Ode -- Part III -- Men as Friends -- Semblance -- The Broker -- The Annual Performance Review -- Taken into Account -- The Barcelona Inside Me -- Rodeo Ben -- Make It Plain -- Where the Unfairness of the World Resides -- Blast Off -- Words with Friends -- The Fix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments N2 - Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5574718 ER -