Research Catalog

Title

From where the rivers come : poems / Richard Solly.

Author

Solly, Richard.

Publication

Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2006.

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Details

Description

109 pages; 23 cm

Contents

River of coffee -- Revisions -- The same prayer -- It's not music the crow plays -- Mercy -- White Point, Nova Scotia -- A violet -- Please note -- Lilacs scent our exile -- Blue strawberry -- In defense of kneeling -- Becoming a carnivore -- Love letter to Lucifer -- The blossom and the coffin -- Into the wild -- Our usual place in the universe -- A crack in the dark -- The plum -- A blood race -- Philoctetes -- Right there -- The human pincushion -- Falling -- Dynamite -- Anatomical wonders in Gibsonton, Florida -- Mary -- Arse poetic : a defense -- The submarine -- The anatomical wonder plays dead in the doctor's office -- White -- The double -- Betting on afternoon light -- Lazarus comes home -- The teacup -- The immensity -- Two bodies -- Prayers of the pen -- The smell of apples -- A horse named sex -- The bathtub -- Atlas revisited -- End of summer -- The body reproaches the soul -- What the hats whisper -- Pilgarlic -- Laughing falls -- Then let me bring -- Roses and thorns, pots and pans -- Shoelaces -- Why a poem ends in death -- True north -- Oil and rags.

ISBN

0977945812 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006048609
• 9780977945818

OCLC

• OCM70718706
• SCSB-5288283

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries