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- Primitive Mentor
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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The ninth collection for this Pulitzer Prize finalist, who remains as entertaining, imaginative and inventive as ever.
Table of Contents
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- Dear Reader
- pp. 1-2
- 1
- Disappearing Ink
- p. 6
- Self Search
- pp. 8-9
- The Great Loneliness
- p. 10
- My Outlook on Life
- p. 16
- Enter Fortinbras
- p. 17
- 2
- Flood Plain
- p. 21
- Desert Ode
- pp. 22-23
- Liverwurst
- p. 24
- Wheelchair Race
- pp. 25-26
- Revolutions Tend toward Orthodoxy
- pp. 27-28
- From the Get-Go
- pp. 31-32
- Admissions Policy
- pp. 33-34
- Sex with Strangers
- pp. 35-36
- Poem on a Theme by Tony Hoagland
- pp. 37-38
- Force of Rabbit
- pp. 39-41
- 3
- Learning to Live with Bliss
- pp. 48-49
- Lots of Questions
- p. 53
- Earth Science Lab Partner
- pp. 54-55
- Private Waterfall
- pp. 56-57
- Lives of the Primitives
- pp. 58-59
- Lives of the Orphans
- pp. 61-62
- Our Kind of People
- pp. 65-66
- My Itty Void
- p. 67
- Procession
- pp. 68-70
- 4
- Half Story Half-Life
- p. 73
- Scatteration
- p. 75
- The Pure Intention of the Hornet
- pp. 77-78
- Like My Older Sister
- pp. 81-82
- Blue Limbo
- pp. 83-84
- Rose Prick
- p. 85
- Oddly Folded Bird
- p. 86
- Grave Tour
- pp. 87-88
- ******
- Acknowledgments
- p. 94
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822978213
Related ISBN(s)
9780822959915
MARC Record
OCLC
835768520
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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