Research Catalog

Title

The fragile peace you keep : poems / by Kel Munger.

Author

Munger, Kel.

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : New Rivers Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

80 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Minnesota voices project ; no. 88

Uniform Title

Minnesota voices project ; no. 88.

Contents

• The Police Department's Night Dispatcher -- The Accomplice -- 10-78/Officer Needs Assistance -- Caught Shoplifting, A Boy Runs Home and Kills Himself -- 10-79/Notify Coroner -- To the Fourteen-Year-Old Runaway with Venereal Disease -- The 911-Dispatcher Reads Boethius On Duty -- The Rookie Contemplates Mortality After Attending the Funeral of a Fellow Officer -- The Turnkey -- What Cops Know -- What Cops Don't Know -- After Making Love, We Hear Sirens -- Babi Yar -- Mendel the Snatcher -- Mordecai, In the Sewer -- Rolf und die Apfelsine -- The Rabbits -- Job's Wife -- Tuberculosis -- The Meatpacker -- Re-Membering: The Color of Silence -- The One-Legged Man Steals a Three-Legged Dog -- The Mermaid's Dream -- Why the Dog Howls at the Moon -- Woman Walking Toward Herself -- The Baker's Helper -- Fat Ladies -- What We Had to Do -- No Witches, But Madness -- The Red-Haired Waitress -- Anastasia -- After Many Years, Griselda Loses Patience -- Small Things -- Ophelia, Diving --
• A Brief Metagraphic History of the Oregon Coast -- Touring the Coast -- Cape Perpetua -- The Nature of Humility, As Explained by Seagulls -- Linslaw Cutoff -- Spent Shells -- Digging for Clams -- Another Guilty Little Poem -- During the Flood -- Daddy Was a Greaser -- Crossing the Bar -- Going Home, After Years Away.

ISBN

0898231868

LCCN

97069841

OCLC

ocm40101948

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries