What things are made of

What things are made of / Charles Harper Webb.

The poems in this collection explore the spectrum of emotions from love to hate, tenderness to brutality. They can be withering and vulnerable in the same breath. Models of clarity and vividness, they are mysterious when they need to be, ranging from lyric to narrative, from realism to wild surreal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webb, Charles Harper
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
Subjects:
2000-2099
American poetry > 21st century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry
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Table of Contents:
  • Nostalgia's Not What It Used to Be
  • Where Are You Now, Sally Woodman
  • Vitus & Me
  • Dark Penguin
  • Mummies to Burn
  • News of Him
  • Jackass: The Viewer
  • Everybody Tries So Hard
  • Trouble with the Law
  • Where Does Joy Come In?
  • Never Too Late
  • The Deed
  • Worry Won't Help
  • Without a Paddle
  • Karen, Lost
  • At Lamaze
  • Morning Dance
  • The Sound That Wakes Me at Night, Thinking of It
  • Sand Fish
  • Duck Tape
  • I Might as Well Have Begged a Cyclone Not to Spin
  • What Kitty Knows
  • The Last Bobcat
  • Don' Like
  • Summer of Love
  • Nerves of Titanium
  • Liar's Ball
  • Nuh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh-Nuh, Dah Dah
  • Dah! Doesn't Look Like Much in Print
  • Sad for the Hunchback
  • One Week Until Opening Day
  • "Man Stuck in Spiderweb"
  • Manpanzee
  • It Had to Do with Candy Sanders
  • We Could've Been Commandos
  • Lingerie Show
  • The Best Moment of My Life
  • Word of Mouth
  • Marco Polo
  • Bimbo Limbo
  • Catfish
  • Day Before Memorial Day
  • Brain Silos
  • On Castle Creek
  • Handling a Trophy Trout
  • Dismantled for Goodwill, Our Son's Crib
  • Corn
  • Places I Spent One Night
  • Bed & Breakfast
  • What Things Are Made Of.

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