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The elephant's child : new & selected poems, 1978-2005
- Title
- The elephant's child : new & selected poems, 1978-2005 / Steve Orlen.
- Author
- Orlen, Steve, 1942-
- Publication
- Keene, NY : Ausable Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3565.R577 E44 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 145 pages; 23 cm
- Contents
- A stairwell, outside a bank -- The art of conversation -- Reunions -- A day in the life -- Three teenage girls : 1956 -- Men on the shore, fish in the sea -- The Pripet marshes -- The advantages of the barbarians -- Lewis Carroll thinks about time -- Let it snow -- Blind date -- Sing for me -- When you're not looking everyone is dancing -- Dodo -- The city of poets : 1966 -- Poem for women and for men -- Six persimmon -- Permission to speak -- Unwritten letters -- In praise of Beverly -- Family cups -- Big friend of the stones -- The great wall of China -- Friends -- Religious feeling -- Standing in line for The Pickle Family Circus -- Shame -- The older woman -- Conversation with the dead -- Red leaves -- The bridge of sighs -- Poem against ideas -- Nobody's Jew -- Field guide -- Shyness -- The life stories of undistinguished Americans (1900-1920) -- Stolen kisses : 1968 -- The meaning of romance -- God's mistakes -- I want to be a girl -- The shaping ground -- Genealogy.
- ISBN
- 1931337284 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006016406
- 9781931337281
- OCLC
- ocm69013679
- SCSB-5273563
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries