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Something American, Carolina S. Souto
Something American, Carolina S. Souto
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
SOMETHING AMERICAN is a poetry collection written from the perspective of a first-generation American navigating a growing family, a political crisis, and a global pandemic. Influences on this collection include Robert Hass’s THE ESSENTIAL HAIKU and FIELD GUIDE, which attend to nature and the poet-speaker’s immediate surroundings with diligence and precision. Ariel Francisco’s place poems and creative titles in ALL MY HEROES ARE BROKE provide important touchstones for Souto’s commitment to here-and-now writing. And Sylvia Plath’s frank and complex writing about motherhood in ARIEL grants the poet permission to probe these subjects as well.
In SOMETHING AMERICAN, experimental poems sprawl …
Banshees: Poems, Eileen P. Kennedy
Blotto In The Lifeboat, Paul Christiansen
Blotto In The Lifeboat, Paul Christiansen
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Blotto in the Lifeboat is a book of poems that investigates natural processes and idiosyncrasies of human societies. Ranging from the absurd to the scientific in tone, the poems in Blotto in the Lifeboat situate themselves on the blurry-line between fact and imagination, employing a style that Thomas Lux describes as “imaginative realism.”
The middle of three sections is comprised solely of the long poem, “A Compendium of the True and Wondrous,” which collages remarkable facts and anecdotes to highlight the strange realities of the world and the rapidity of change. The first and third sections contain shorter, narrative poems …
My Life As A Salmon, Tom Johnson
Riding The Bus, Davey Erekson
Principles Of Tree House Construction, Laura Owen
En Route To Marquesado, Karl Chandler
Orchard, Sarah J. Carter
Great Gardens!, Joshua Brady
Miracles, Lisa A. Nielsen
Happiness, James Richards
President James Rethinks Ordelia, Mark Foster
Grandmother Naming, Shannon Castleton
Pah Tempe, Sally Stratford
The Mood This Afternoon, Krista Halverson
Adam's Song, James Richards
Dishes, Karl Thomas Rees
Qua Têt, Karl Thomas Rees
Dream Of The Anxiety Clinic, Shannon Castleton
Burials, Neil Aitken
Running Circles, N. Andrew Spackman
A Letter To The Person Who Will Go Through My Pockets When I'M Dead, Jerem Pickett
A Letter To The Person Who Will Go Through My Pockets When I'M Dead, Jerem Pickett
Inscape
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Application, James Richards
Birth, Neil Aitken
5:30 Dialogue, Marilyn Nelson
The Grasshopper Holocaust Of Summer Suburbia, Brian Jackson
The Grasshopper Holocaust Of Summer Suburbia, Brian Jackson
Inscape
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What's Funny And What's True, Krista Halverson