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- Bird Odyssey
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Travel has always been Barbara Hamby's muse, and in Bird Odyssey she hits the road hard, riding a train across Siberia, taking a car trip from Memphis to New Orleans on Highway 61, and following The Odyssey from Troy to Ithaka. The concatenation of images released include Elvis and Tolstoy cruising through the sky in a pink Cadillac, Homer and Robert Johnson discussing their art in the Underworld, and the women in The Odyssey telling their side of the story, because what's a woman to do in this world of men? She has to strike out on her own, ask the right questions, and tell her own story, translating the world into her own bright lie.
Table of Contents
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- I. Six Blackbirds On The Highway To Moscow
- Ode to My Gulag
- pp. 3-4
- The Dream of the Dacha
- pp. 5-7
- Over-the-Hill Tenors after the Opera
- pp. 13-14
- Ode to Lenin’s Overcoat
- pp. 15-16
- The Brides of Ekaterinburg
- pp. 18-19
- II. Three Vultures On The Blacktop To Memphis
- Fried Chicken Boiled Peanut Blues
- pp. 31-32
- Ode to Reading Proust in Memphis
- pp. 33-34
- Elvis and Tolstoy Save the World
- pp. 35-37
- Driving in the Rain
- p. 38
- Past Itta Bena Near Quito Plantation
- pp. 39-40
- I Be Dead Blues
- pp. 41-43
- Jennie Hodgers Tells All
- pp. 44-46
- New Orleans Dithyramb
- pp. 50-52
- III. To A Chickadee At Troy
- Athena Ode
- p. 55
- Ode to a Chickadee at Troy
- pp. 56-57
- A Farewell to Shopping
- pp. 58-59
- Ode to Roadside Shrines
- pp. 62-63
- Ode on Words for Water
- pp. 73-74
- The Odyssey in Six Sonnets
- I. Nausicaa
- p. 75
- IV. Sirens’ Song
- p. 78
- V. Calypso
- p. 79
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 81-83
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822983323
Related ISBN(s)
9780822965251
MARC Record
OCLC
1078552765
Pages
93
Launched on MUSE
2018-12-18
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018
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