Trickster : poems / by Randall Potts.

Trickster opens with a crank call to the reader: "How was I to know / You were thin, your garden / Was covered in smoke / That you sat in your house / Coughing?" Over the course of these beautiful and eerily accomplished poems, Potts's reader is taken on a journey that is at once time...

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Main Author: Potts, Randall
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 2014.
Series:Kuhl House poets.
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505 0 |a Part I -- Trickster -- Nest -- A Natural History -- The Good Life -- The Ranch -- Stalker -- Passport -- The Inquisitor -- Balance -- Dream -- Dream -- Undoing -- Walk -- Part II -- Fable -- Folklore -- Swarm -- Divide Meadow -- Metamorphosis -- Annual -- Song of Ticks -- Eclogue -- Math -- The Trouble with You -- Him -- Part III -- Triage -- Fable -- Song for Oyster -- Living for Others -- Song for Dying -- The Hare -- Contest -- Unspoken -- Upstairs -- Counting the Animals -- Washroom (Oil Spill) -- Tanka -- Memorandum of Birds -- Eclipse -- Diary -- Familiar -- Golden Book -- Haiku -- Part IV -- Utopia Parkway -- Acknowledgments -- Notes. 
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