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Thieves' Latin : poems

Title
Thieves' Latin : poems / by Peter Jay Shippy.
Author
Shippy, Peter Jay, 1961-
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Description
86 pages; 21 cm.
Series Statement
The Iowa poetry prize
Uniform Title
Iowa poetry prize.
Note
  • "Winner of the Iowa poetry prize."
Contents
  • America: Before the Last War -- Dogs Resembling Their Owners -- Caught between the Twisted Stars -- Portrait of God on Work Release -- It Ain't Boasting If ... -- Mandelstam Space Station Down -- The Baudelaire Hospital & Grill -- Me I Disconnect from You -- Earth Is a Lonely Town -- Architecture and Morality -- Page One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Nine -- Finally We Are No One -- Inhaler.
  • America, USA -- The Special People -- Crocodiles Shed Their Tears When Devouring Francis Bacon -- Why Is the Crow a Harmful Bird? -- Stars by Children -- When Alice Coltrane Calls -- Transgenic Laureate -- Ether Talk -- Two Stans Eat -- M axEr nst -- Bunnyman, an Elegy -- No One Understands Who I Really Am So I Will Wear Copper Cladding, Oxidize. Turn Green and Blend in with the Trees -- Reykjavik -- Me My Dog and Our Pornography -- The Skidding of Tottie Coughdrop -- Flying on Instruments -- Weathercast -- Was Postmodern -- Ack-Ack -- Nauman's PsalmBook -- The Bowling Pin Forest -- Buzzcocked -- Sehnsucht -- Awfrgawdsakes -- Niagara, Niagara -- Eskimo Is Lucien -- Walking with Planck -- What Is an Antidote? -- Novemberite -- Dik-Dik -- Alack -- Fink -- Not the Kind of Poem Found in the Japanese Edition of Tiger Beat or the Ballad of the Bodiless Man -- Alien Immigrant -- Crack -- Little Poe Station --
ISBN
0877458405 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
2002075076
OCLC
  • ocm50767956
  • SCSB-4347308
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries