Blue on blue ground
Title:
Blue on blue ground
JLCTITLE245:
Aaron Smith.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Pittsburgh, PA. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (91 pages).
ISBN:
9780822990918
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Abstract:
Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Blue on Blue Ground is about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession-how what we want redeems and isolates us (and is sometimes used against us). These poems are artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable. Smith's relentless self-examination, fear, sense of humor, and vulnerability are all laid to bare in crisp, precise language. From lonely observations, bizarre medical fascinations, emotion, loss, and honesty, Blue on Blue Ground constructs its internal and external worlds. The metaphorical city is also.
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JSTOR
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
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Contents:
""Contents ""; ""Part I""; ""Keep Him There""; ""Working Out with the Boys""; ""Dr. Engel Buys the Jesus-on-a-Spring Action Figure""; ""Notes Composed in a Heat Wave""; ""Secrets of an Identity Thief""; ""Wreckage""; ""Confrontation""; ""Psalm: West Virginia""; ""How Easily He Moves""; ""Dr. Engel Survives the Blackout in New York City""; ""Rain in Pittsburgh""; ""Jockstrap""; ""Her Bright Face at the Places of Our Leaving""; ""Boston""; ""Dr. Engel Writes a Love Letter""; ""Part II""; ""The Signs of Choking""; ""Taking Off from the Airport / Cleveland, Ohio""
""Dr. Engel Goes to the Nudist Colony""""Brad Pitt""; ""Boston""; ""Cher Uncensored""; ""Silent Room""; ""Prayer for a Doctor""; ""New Zealand Hand Model Stuart Poses with Kiwifruit and Has a Foot Fetish (notes from an interview)""; ""Valedictory""; ""Frank O'Hara""; ""The Story of Your Leaving""; ""Music History""; ""Story""; ""Then""; ""Dr. Engel Studies John Currin's Paintings""; ""The Last Small Thing""; ""Late""; ""Ars Poetica""; ""Part III""; ""Dark, Awful Man""; ""Dr. Engel Interprets Rothko's Blue, Green, Blue on Blue Ground""; ""Dear Matt Damon""; ""The Trick""; ""Explanation""
""Snow""""Things I Could Never Tell My Mother""; ""Sightings""; ""Poem for the End of Summer""; ""Dr. Engel Passes a Generically Attractive Couple""; ""Whata's Required""; ""After Coming Out to My Sister""; ""After-School Special""; ""Dr. Engel Teaches the Poet How to Swim""; ""Learning the Body""; ""Notes Composed on a Sidewalk""; ""Notes ""; ""Acknowledgments ""
Technical Details:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Language:
English.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.