Research Catalog

Title

Nomenclature of small things / Lynn Pedersen.

Author

Pedersen, Lynn

Publication

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016.

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Details

Description

78 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Here are poems quietly wise, beautiful, beguiling, and enriched by the peculiarities and spectacularities of science. Guiding them is a poet tough-skinned by tenderhearted. In giving accounts of a wide array of ALIVE-in-our-world, Lynn Pedersen's poems shimmer. And among the multitudes of creatures, wwe find grief to be but another animal "that can depart and return with a soft shudder of feathers." These are poems to save and/or devour."

Series Statement

Carnegie Mellon poetry series

Uniform Title

Carnegie Mellon poetry.

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).

Contents

Catalog I. The infinite density of grief -- The birth of superstition -- Nomenclature: the first day -- Miscarriage -- Eve paints the apple trees -- The sterility of numbers -- How to speak nineteenth century -- A catalog of what we're not meant to see -- The rift -- Isaac Newton waits out the plague -- Wilson's warbler -- The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean by Federic Remington (1896) -- How to move away -- Something about Darwin ; Catalog II. Begin -- After seven months, Alaskans begin to bury their dead -- A brief history of the passenger pigeon -- Pre-Op -- Taxonomy:taxidermy -- Correction -- Platypus:Hoax -- Decay -- Found poem: Sir Hamon L'Estrange gives the only documented account of a living dodo in Britain, 1638 -- What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain -- Pond -- Hangman -- I hate Darwin -- Horse latitudes -- Grief and geometry -- Primer -- What is still, what is moving ; Catalog III. The classification of impermanence -- The second son -- Braids -- Ballast -- Stil life -- My grandmother peels apples for sauce -- Why we speak English -- The quick of things -- Selling skies at the Soho Bazaar, 1790 -- At forty -- Darwin's twin sister -- Sugar in space -- On reading about the illness and death of Darwin's daughter Annie -- A way with words -- Dickinsonia.

Call Number

JFD 16-1240

ISBN

• 0887486096
• 9780887486098

OCLC

923650116

Author

Pedersen, Lynn, author.

Title

Nomenclature of small things / Lynn Pedersen.

Publisher

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Carnegie Mellon poetry series

Carnegie Mellon poetry.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78).

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1240