Research Catalog

Title

Mister Toebones : poems / Brooks Haxton.

Author

Haxton, Brooks, 1950-

Publication

• New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xi, 100 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The award-winning poet considers the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his tenth collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives to a daddy longlegs he sees at his father's grave. In other poems, the poet and his mother, in search of a swimming hole, find a copperhead rearing to strike, about to birth its live young; a poacher in Australia tries to untangle a platypus from a fishing net, only to be injected with venom from the spur on its hind leg. The poems explore rivers, oceans, and the frozen north, and outer space, where they encounter temperature and energies past endurance. Others venture into history among visionaries and despots, scientific prodigies, murderers, lovers. In response to the threats against human survival, our own recklessness chief among them, these poems seek a renewed vitality in attention to all and concern for being"--

Subjects

• Poetry
• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."--colophon.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Canoe -- The Other World -- Mister Toebones, Called in Several Languages the Reaper -- To Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham -- After the Snow Squall -- Olm -- Early in the Christian Empire -- The Featherbed -- Copernicus -- We Could Say Oypavoo -- Sea Cave -- Catullus, Carmen III -- Catullus, Carmen VIII -- Essential Tremor -- To Josephine Chamberlain Ayres Haxton -- Under the Searchlight of a Robot Sub -- The Loving Essence of the Duckmole -- Observations from a Hillside Stairway on the Day of Atonement, Just Before My Wife and Daughters Break Their Fast -- Kropotkin and the Lake on Mars -- Thanks to the Makers of Shells -- Message, 1944 -- Unlit Kitchen, 5 A.M. -- To Floyd, Louisiana -- Sunset, Mare Spumans -- From the Journal of Dr. Beaurieux -- To the Water Bear -- The Nationality of Neptune -- The Arctic Vortex at Snooks Pond, 2014 -- Apologies to the Dead -- Flower Medley -- Eclipse -- Near Saturn -- Lingerie Femme and the Vagaries of Pronunciation -- To Bald Eagle -- Circa 1961 -- Oceanic -- To Sirius B -- A Voter from Mississippi Considers the State Constitution -- A Cat Lover's Guide to The Bell Curve -- To Jesse James -- Love and Empire -- From Anyte of Tegea -- The Cormorant at Snooks Pond -- Bananas -- The Moons of Jupiter -- Don't Get Me Wrong -- Tracks Everywhere at Noon -- The Bewilderment -- To the Moon -- Transit of Venus, 1882 -- Qoheleth -- Where But to Think Is to Be Full of Sorrow -- Fig Preserves.

Call Number

JFD 21-3621

ISBN

• 9780593318522
• 0593318528

LCCN

2020017755

OCLC

1151541835

Author

Haxton, Brooks, 1950- author.

Title

Mister Toebones : poems / Brooks Haxton.

Publisher

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Haxton, Brooks, 1950- Mister toebones New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 9780593318539 (DLC) 2020017756

Research Call Number

JFD 21-3621