Research Catalog

Title

Fire wheel / Sharmila Voorakkara.

Author

Voorakkara, Sharmila, 1967-

Publication

Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

89 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Collection of original poems by Sharmila Voorakkara"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Akron series in poetry

Contents

Tow -- The holy men of Jersey -- Poem to my father, once a vacuum cleaner salesman, now an ascetic -- Tin man -- My suicide uncles -- Dogs -- In a lost language -- Amanuensis -- Ophelia among the fish -- Saint breakdown -- Helen of Troy -- Menelaus -- Helen tells all -- Life with Paris -- Epilogue -- Monologue of the vanishing woman -- Mercy -- The world's smallest woman speaks -- Talking to myself -- Bread and Cinderella -- Audrey, the laundromat fury, says -- His -- The orchard's daughter -- I grow lighter at night -- Cleaning -- Dusk -- Reflections on Toledo, black and white plate, page 518 in The history of Europe -- Luck -- For the tattooed man -- The beneficence of spinning bodies -- Palmer method -- For Herman, second grade -- Mr. Hatpin, meet Ms. Mannequin -- Bridgewalker -- Still life with falling garbage -- Kicking the dog -- They got all-nite Muzak playing at the strip mall -- The transvestite and his mother -- Brother zero -- Men in white suits -- On Atlantis -- Freaks -- Man with baseball bat -- Ditch music -- Goat's head godhead -- The monologues men draw -- Big sky, little man -- The flight of the insurance men -- Apology -- Emissaries from other worlds -- The last nickel dance.

ISBN

• 1931968209 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1931968217 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004021384

OCLC

ocm56535163

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries