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- Gnawed Bones
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
From wildfire and war to bleached reefs and human frailty, Peggy Shumaker’s new poems meditate on mortality. Her poems speak with elegaic force for lost languages, lost ancestors, lost ways of being. This work sharpens the edges of our perception, drawing on the inner life, on secrets that keep us alive. With language as lyrical as the natural world, the poems in Gnawed Bones nourish us.
Table of Contents
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- Sea Change
- p. 7
- Polished Table
- p. 9
- Deliverance
- p. 10
- Gnawed Bones
- p. 13
- Nests, an Elegy
- pp. 14-15
- Night Dive
- p. 18
- Night Watch
- pp. 19-20
- As War Goes On
- pp. 21-22
- Dive, Three Definitions
- pp. 24-26
- Section II: Mystery Aisle
- pp. 27-28
- The Provider
- pp. 29-31
- Desert Odyssey
- p. 32
- Touch and Go
- pp. 33-34
- Always the Entertainer
- pp. 35-36
- Rinsing that Tomato
- p. 37
- You’re Here
- pp. 38-39
- My Father Never
- pp. 46-47
- Radio Control
- pp. 49-50
- Albóndigas
- pp. 52-53
- Section III: Our Mother of Sorrows
- pp. 57-58
- Land Fraud Nosebleed
- pp. 59-61
- Desert Climbing
- p. 62
- Better Homes
- pp. 63-64
- Horny Toads
- p. 66
- Sky of Souls
- pp. 69-70
- Upset Woman
- p. 71
- You Should Know Better
- pp. 72-74
- Norwegian Wood
- p. 80
- Mother Tongue
- p. 81
- That Painting I Didn’t Buy
- pp. 82-84
- Wilderness
- p. 87
- A Brief Aside
- p. 90
- Hard Stick
- p. 95
- Naming What we Hold in our Hand
- pp. 99-100
- Kus-Sun-Ar
- p. 101
- In Praise, Ephemera
- p. 103
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 107-108
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597093521
Related ISBN(s)
9781597091565
MARC Record
OCLC
867793669
Pages
120
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No