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- The Dirt Riddles: Poems
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- 2009
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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This powerful first collection and winner of the inaugural $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize is literally rooted in the earth and in the world of animal husbandry. You can taste these poems about life on a family dairy farm in your mouth. In these lyrical poems we meet a closeted young man, his parents, their herd, and the other flora, fauna, and objects that populate his surreal garden.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. v-viii
- Morning Milkings
- p. 3
- First Kisses
- p. 8
- Buffalo Bones
- p. 11
- Rock Picking
- p. 15
- Grounding I
- p. 16
- Against Pastorals
- p. 19
- Food Chain
- p. 20
- A Table Prayer
- p. 21
- Weekly Horoscope
- p. 22
- Barn Clothes
- p. 24
- Animal Diary
- p. 25
- Fly Grammar
- p. 29
- Surrogates
- p. 30
- New Tenants
- p. 33
- Family Farm
- p. 34
- Mud, Apples, Milk
- p. 35
- Evening Milkings
- p. 36
- Stalk, Root, Scissors
- pp. 39-41
- Blanket Game
- p. 42
- Camouflage
- p. 44
- The Dirt Riddles
- p. 46
- Field Junk
- p. 47
- Ear, Skin, and Bone Riddles
- pp. 48-50
- Grounding II
- p. 51
- Star Chart
- p. 52
- Field Burning
- p. 54
- Inheritance
- p. 57
- Paper Flesh
- pp. 59-60
- Newspapers from 1929
- p. 61
- Handmade for Disasters
- pp. 64-65
- Tornado Junk
- p. 66
- Garden and Grave
- pp. 70-74
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610754156
Related ISBN(s)
9781557289254
MARC Record
OCLC
769187833
Pages
92
Launched on MUSE
2012-04-16
Language
English
Open Access
No
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