In this Book
- Raw Goods Inventory
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
- Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
summary
In Raw Goods Inventory, Emily Rosko gives us a poetic inventory in a virtuosic display of voices and accents. The poems come with sharp elbows and knees; they are nomadic, acquisitive, dispersive, and diffractive. More elementally, Rosko's poems contain the scattered bric-a-brac of the imagination, with goods that range from a dud egg to genetic hybrids, from Marian iconography to pigs at a state fair. She offers honest embodiments of anxiety, awkwardness, and boredom, as she also recasts with wit and grace the standard poetic fare: love, death, and disappointment. Idiomatic, raw, and skewed in the best possible way, Rosko's poetry manages to speak to us---with arresting lyric gusto---of familiar things.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- i. clearing the yard
- What Closes
- p. 7
- Wave Factor
- p. 8
- Any Good Scientist Could Tell You
- pp. 10-11
- A Chameleon
- p. 15
- ii. tongues of
- Ventriloquized Bodies
- pp. 19-20
- the toy divine(s)
- pp. 21-22
- Insulation
- pp. 24-25
- The Dandelions Went
- p. 26
- Three Constructions
- pp. 28-30
- Lives of Astrologers
- p. 31
- Conniption Fit
- p. 33
- At the Sushi Arcade
- pp. 34-35
- Raw Goods Inventory
- pp. 36-37
- iii. hanging out the wash
- Dzien Dobry
- pp. 42-43
- In the Land of Sleeping People
- pp. 44-45
- Sleeping Bear Dunes
- p. 47
- Before Surgery
- pp. 48-49
- iv. spare
- An Opening Onto
- p. 61
- Our Lady of Appearances
- pp. 70-71
- Blind Feel
- pp. 72-73
Additional Information
ISBN
9781587296741
Related ISBN(s)
9780877459804
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
645294267
Pages
94
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-11
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006