In this Book
- Ornament
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
- Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
summary
In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern U.S., and the old-time Appalachian tunes and Piedmont blues she was raised to love. With formal dexterity—in ballads and sonnets, Sapphics and amphibrachs—the poems in Ornament traverse the permeable boundary between the body and the natural world.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Midafternoon
- pp. 5-6
- Trifoliate Orange
- p. 17
- Unhomemaking
- p. 18
- Girl at the State Line
- pp. 21-22
- I’m Going Back to North Carolina
- pp. 27-28
- Unfinished Story
- p. 29
- Limax maximus
- pp. 30-32
- The Waxweed Girl
- p. 34
- Dishwashing
- pp. 38-39
- And Not Look Back
- p. 48
- To Do in the New Year
- pp. 55-56
- Honeysuckle
- p. 62
- Early Blackberries
- p. 63
- Roustabout
- p. 64
- Sprout Wings and Fly
- pp. 67-68
- Part IV
- Some Songs and Tunes
- pp. 71-73
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574416787
Related ISBN(s)
9781574416657
MARC Record
OCLC
984442110
Pages
84
Launched on MUSE
2017-04-29
Language
English
Open Access
No
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