The Americans

The Americans / David Roderick.

David Roderick's second book, The Americans, pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child's room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roderick, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2014]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
Subjects:
2000-2099
American poetry > 21st century.
FICTION > General.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Poems.
Table of Contents:
  • Dear suburb,
  • After de Tocqueville
  • On the bullet train from Hiroshima
  • Letter to Shara in Amman
  • Build your dream home here
  • California clouds
  • Dear suburb,
  • Target
  • Love field
  • Ambassador Hotel
  • Terra incognita
  • Pale tornado
  • Dear suburb,
  • Self-portrait as David Lynch
  • In my name
  • Koi
  • Self-portrait as David Hockney
  • Western wind
  • Pastoral
  • Akhmatova's ashtray
  • 44 Standish Avenue
  • 35 Miller Drive
  • Green fields
  • 13 Pleasant Street
  • New directive
  • Landscape with tyrian purple
  • Dear suburb,
  • Thoreau's beans
  • As when drought imagines fire
  • Passionflower
  • Dear suburb,
  • The locusts
  • Running bush
  • Dear suburb,
  • Eros and dust
  • Running brush
  • Faithful see Virgin Mary in office window.

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