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- Soluble Fish
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Soluble Fish transports readers to a place of discovery, exploring issues of borders, familial and love relationships, and other aspects of being human. Mary Jo Firth Gillett layers her poems in rich metaphor as she searches for meaning in everyday life. Contemplating a range of topics from teaching poetry to watching her father filet a fish, Gillett’s humorous and playful collection celebrates language and life.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- One
- Itch, Scratch
- pp. 3-4
- Like a Deity, Like a Diatom
- pp. 5-6
- Sea Monkeys
- pp. 9-10
- Chicken Tile
- p. 14
- Camping Out in the '50s
- pp. 15-16
- Hand-Me-Down Pantown
- pp. 17-18
- Lighthouse
- p. 23
- Fish Tales
- pp. 24-25
- Poem for the Hibiscus
- pp. 32-33
- Farmer, 1938
- pp. 36-37
- Watching Dad Filet a Bass
- pp. 39-40
- Snowflake Obsidian
- pp. 43-44
- Of Snakes, Of Gluttony
- pp. 45-46
- A Note to the Skeptics
- pp. 47-48
- The bag lady
- pp. 49-50
- Small losses...
- p. 52
- Letter to the Muse
- pp. 55-56
- Three
- Making Soup
- pp. 59-60
- Electric Tomato
- pp. 64-65
- Timeline for Lovers
- p. 70
- Your Mouth
- pp. 74-75
- Lightning Bugs
- p. 77
- World Enough
- pp. 79-80
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