Research Catalog

Title

The memory of gills : poems / Catherine Carter.

Author

Carter, Catherine, 1967-

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Description

59 pages; 23 cm

Note

• "An LSU Press paperback original."

Contents

Sunken tanks, Bloodsworth Island -- The last good water -- A long way inland -- Evidence of angels -- The stingrays -- Letter appealing a citation -- The room where words are -- With the net down -- Rapid eye movement -- Witching hour -- The ants and the double helix -- Bury -- Where the dogs lie -- Early elegy -- Nine lines for some people I've lost -- The telephone in my dream -- Narcissus Poeticus at the city building -- The handsome dentist files your teeth -- In the mountains : an occasional -- Power failure -- Cthulhu in Atlantis -- Hearing things -- Years away : paradelle for diminishment -- A history of the lost colony -- Auspicious days -- For malefactors everywhere -- Play anything -- On having once been hopelessly in love on the Pennsylvania turnpike -- Nimue, in the magic seminar -- Leaving love -- The semen trees -- The day of the summer solstice -- Two years married -- Song for the absent, with hatchets -- Semele's story -- Raised by wolves -- Heart, liver, cormorant -- Persephone underground -- Wingate, Maryland, early evening -- Cullowhee Creek, after thunder -- This brassiere -- Meditation on lettuce -- The other story -- The fall -- Galas again -- Because forgetting runs in the family.

ISBN

0807131768 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005031009
• 9780807131763

OCLC

• OCM62172827
• SCSB-5273387

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries