In this Book
- The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
Nick Lantz explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. His gaze is both roving and microscopic—the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother naming and re-naming a family’s short-lived pets, and a plea for post-9/11 redemption. Lantz never lets his subjects or his readers off the hook, plunging head first into worlds that are both eccentric and familiar, alarming and hopeful.
Finalist, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year in the Poetry category
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Where You Are, Where You’ve Been, Where You’re Going
- Ship of Theseus
- p. 3
- The Werewolf Dreams of Love
- pp. 4-5
- The Miracle
- p. 8
- What the Lathe Wants
- pp. 9-11
- Patterson–Gimlin Film: Frame 352
- pp. 14-15
- History of Fire
- pp. 16-22
- What Land of Milk and Honey
- Portmanterrorism
- p. 25
- Misanthropy
- p. 26
- Kuzka’s Mother
- p. 29
- A Coign of Vantage
- pp. 30-31
- Judith & Holofernes
- p. 34
- The Marian Apparitions
- pp. 37-38
- Challenger
- p. 42
- Back to Earth Unharmed
- Collective
- p. 47
- Conditional
- p. 49
- Teach a Man to Fish
- p. 52
- The Giant Squid
- p. 55
- Arc Welding Lesson
- pp. 56-58
- The Last Words of Pancho Villa
- pp. 62-65
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299235833
Related ISBN(s)
9780299235840
MARC Record
OCLC
647891266
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No