Research Catalog

Title

Floating city : poems / Anne Pierson Wiese.

Author

Wiese, Anne Pierson.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

vi, 66 pages; 21 cm

Note

• "Winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2006"--P. [ii].

Contents

Profile of the night heron -- The century plant -- Mica Schist -- All night long -- Lilacs -- Undergrowth -- In the garden -- Sonnet to Basil -- Ficus Noire -- Spring planting -- Peony -- Hermit coming out of the forest -- Rabid -- In the garden at the time of the evening breeze -- In the beginning -- The taking -- Casa Rosa -- Silver palace -- Last night in Brooklyn -- Sugar Hill, Harlem -- Where we live -- Death has no place -- Airborne -- At the laundromat -- At the Farmer's Market -- The great Roberto -- The weather in New York -- Thanksgiving -- Leaving Brooklyn Heights -- Columbus Park -- Early bird -- Gift basket for a madman -- Evening rush -- Tell me -- A pole, a fence, a bridge -- Body elite -- The Hungarian pastry shop & cafe -- Everything but God -- Historic New York pub still flourishing -- Harvest -- How we memorize -- Bicentennial -- Composed upon Brooklyn Bridge, July 6, 2003 -- Season's greetings from South Dakota -- Water bug -- Inside -- Farmers -- Wind farm -- Tante ethel in the willow -- You are here -- Beiderbecke, Leon Bismarck "Bix," 1903-1931 -- Needle and thread -- On learning to go limp in public places -- Coming into sioux falls, South Dakota, in a propeller plane -- Van Gogh's sunflowers -- Discovery -- The distance.

ISBN

• 0807132357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780807132357 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006027370
• 9780807132357

OCLC

• OCM71006791
• 71006791
• SCSB-5319169

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries