Research Catalog

Title

Mistaking the sea for green fields / Ashley Capps.

Author

Capps, Ashley, 1976-

Publication

Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

69 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Akron series in poetry

Uniform Title

Akron series in poetry.

Contents

Hymn for two choirs -- God bless our crop-dusted wedding cake -- Reading an ex-lover's first novel -- April -- Inside facts -- Ars Poetica -- Live feed -- The zealot -- Black ice -- As surprised by that as by everything that followed -- Hwy 51 -- The sign said -- A La Recherche Du Temps ... (six steps (for example)) -- To the dapple critic -- Mistaking the sea for green fields -- My people -- Home stay -- Elegy for my old urgency -- December -- Gripes the lover leveled (leaving) -- Bottleneck -- The wedding -- Otherwise -- The nearest simile is respiration -- Public, scenic -- All night city train -- I used to see her in the field beside my house -- To my friend Grievous -- Shane says -- Tar -- Poem on the occasion of my MRI -- Washing the brain -- Encore -- Porch -- River -- The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even -- To my lover, returning to his wife -- Spider milk -- Conventional red -- Love poem -- Coffin birth (one theory, Lord) -- All the invisible animals -- Those little deaths -- There is also the suffering of not obtaining what is desired, although it is sought -- What constitutes a proper planet.

ISBN

1931968373 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006024313
• 9781931968379

OCLC

• OCM70707959
• SCSB-5288282

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries