Research Catalog

Title

Orient point / Julie Sheehan.

Author

Sheehan, Julie.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Description

135 pages; 22 cm

Note

• "The Barnard women poets prize"--P. [3].
• Poems.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical referenes (p. 133-135).

Contents

Honeymoon in the Grenadines -- Maurice Greene, the fastest man alive, is asked the secret of his success -- Brown-headed cowbirds -- Sonnet : to a young refugee, upon finding asylum in the Midwest -- It was a normal day except I fell -- Polar bear in the Central Park Zoo -- Ivory-billed woodpecker -- Pecking order -- From the minister of praise at large -- Coyotes in Greenwich! -- The visual display of quantitative information -- Archaic smile -- Valediction -- Pine cone, fallen -- Mercy school -- Sonnet : to a marriage that cannot be saved by a weekend in Calistoga -- Hate poem -- Gifted -- Stray -- Sonnet : on a recurring argument going nowhere -- Loose leaf from a destroyed journal -- Dependent clause -- Sonnet : upon losing one's lease, the devastation thereof -- Coney island -- I am not a confessional poet -- Untenable position of his mother-in-law -- Fugitive -- Deadwood, S.D. -- Rural development news -- Ghazal : orient point -- Candling eggs -- St. Philomena -- Harriet Tubman -- Correspondence -- Mary at the well -- Details of Cana -- Cottonwood tree, Woodbury County -- A mother's favor will break your heart -- On the feast of St. Margaret of Cortona -- Salutations.

ISBN

0393061914 (hardcover)

LCCN

• 2006001416
• 9780393061918

OCLC

• ocm63116934
• SCSB-5245680

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries