Bright dead things : poems

Summary: ""Bright Dead Things" examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately disorderly, and marvelous, and ours"--

Record details

ISBN: 1571319255
ISBN: 9781571319258
ISBN: 1571314717
ISBN: 9781571314710
Physical Description: 105 pages ; 22 cm
print
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

How to triumph like a girl -- During the impossible age of everyone -- The last move -- Mowing -- The rewilding -- The good wave -- Down here -- How far away we are -- The quiet machine -- I remember the carrots -- The tree of fire -- Someplace like Montana -- State bird -- Downhearted -- Miracle fish -- The saving tree -- What it looks like to us and the words we use -- Bellow -- What remains grows ravenous -- In a Mexican restaurant I recall how much you upset me -- Cower -- Relentless -- The riveter -- The vine -- After you toss around the ashes -- The noisiness of sleep -- We are surprised -- The long ride -- Before -- Torn -- Field bling -- In the country of resurrection -- Glow -- The wild divine -- Day of song, day of silence -- Oranges & the ocean -- Play it again -- Long ago & the cow comes back -- Accident report in the tall, tall weeds -- Service -- The plunge -- The good fight -- Drift -- Midnight, talking about our exes -- Nashville after hours -- Oh please, let it be lightning -- Adaptation -- Roadside attractions with the dogs of America -- Prickly pear & fisticuffs -- The whale & the waltz inside of it -- A trick of the light -- Tattoo theory -- The problem with travel -- Outside Oklahoma, we see Boston -- The great blue heron of Dunbar Road -- Lies about sea creatures -- Call to post -- Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark -- Home fires -- After the ice storm -- The other wish -- The conditional.