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- The Mouths of Grazing Things
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
The Mouths of Grazing Things is an unflinching, lyrical meditation on nature’s forced exodus from the human, and the forms of longing, estrangement, magnetism, and self-otherness that ensue. Arrestingly tender and fiercely protective of where nature lurks in and out of us still, Boyden translates for a new landscape where a brain in a jar is anchored by an apple, a fly-tying fisherman finds love songs to fish scattered among the barber’s sweepings, and the players at “the most dangerous playground in the world” prepare for anything with one fist clenched and the other full of sugar. In poems built to survive an unsafe journey, this book delivers the now-beyond, the almost-was, the near-forgotten, and the just-in-time.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 1.
- The Listener
- p. 3
- Running the Bulls
- pp. 11-12
- Out of the Barn
- p. 19
- Something to Go By
- p. 21
- Substitute
- pp. 23-24
- Potential: Two Times
- pp. 29-30
- 2.
- The Pardon
- p. 41
- Will There Be Police
- p. 45
- Floating Even Now
- p. 51
- Phantom Limb
- p. 55
- Analysis of the Moth
- p. 59
- Plenty Comes at Night
- pp. 67-69
- A Pileup, and Time, Besides
- pp. 71-72
- 3.
- The Lost Man
- p. 87
- The Air Anniversary
- p. 89
- Fly Tier’s Monomania
- pp. 95-96
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow
- p. 97
- The Speaking
- p. 99
- What the Stones Allow
- pp. 101-102
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299235130
Related ISBN(s)
9780299235147
MARC Record
OCLC
647891268
Pages
102
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No