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Title

At the drive-in volcano : poems / Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Author

Nezhukumatathil, Aimee

Publication

Dorset, Vt. : Tupelo Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

85 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Poésie
• Poetry
• poetry
• American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• Poems.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

One: Fin of molton rock waves at the sky -- When weaver ants cut (a valentine) -- Fugu soup blues -- Invention of the monsters -- By the light of a single worm -- After challenging Jennifer Lee to a fight -- Marie Laveau, Queen of Voodoo -- First fool -- Bloodflower -- In praise of ice cream vending machines at a Greyhound bus station -- Two: Cane spiders tiptoe across the ash -- Passenger pigeon cloud -- Take the Moly Flower -- Passion play -- Touchpool -- Dog custody -- Candy necklace -- If you take the fins off a shark -- At Medusa's hair salon -- After the auction, I bid you good-bye -- This is the Last Hotel -- When all of my cousins are married -- "Yes, we have no bananas" -- Sugar pains me -- I am not the hand -- Last areogramme to you, with Lizard -- Three: Scallops watch pillow lava form underwater -- Devil's tongue -- Carcass of beef -- Oriental -- When the mother of the greedy boy has enough -- Cocoa dance -- Dali's fear of grasshoppers -- Never sugar, never soil -- How the robin's breast became red -- Bee wolf -- Woman who eats soil -- Four: Nuggets of wet lapilli collect under a pine tree and no one hears -- Hippopotomonstroseequippedaliophobia -- High school picture re-take day -- Planaria -- When the great teacher dies -- World of the ice giants -- Might as well be queen of something -- Origin of the mango -- What the mosquito gives -- River Phoenix -- Summer of no smiles -- Five: Ovenbirds, bulgy with seed, fly past the blast -- Love in the Orangery -- Cockfighter's daughter falls in love -- Niagara Falls at night -- For luck: a seven day guide -- Flashlight fish -- Soap -- At the drive-in volcano -- Green flash -- When mountains fang the sky -- Traveling lizard -- Why I crave ribs tonight -- First anniversary, with monkeys.

ISBN

• 9781932195453
• 1932195459

LCCN

^^2006908736

OCLC

• 145504665
• SCSB-10990444

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library