Description |
100 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
1. SPRING -- Give me this -- Drowning creek -- Swear on it -- Sanctuary -- Invasive -- Good story -- In the shadow -- Forsythia -- And, too, the fox -- Stranger things in the thicket -- Glimpse -- First lesson -- Anticipation -- Foaling season -- Not the saddest thing in the world -- Stillwater cove -- 2. SUMMER -- It begins with the trees -- Banished wonders -- Where the circles overlap -- When it comes down to it -- Magnificent frigatebird -- Blowing on the wheel -- Jar of scorpions -- First fish -- Joint custody -- On skyline and tar -- Cyrus & the snakes -- Only the faintest blue -- Calling things what they are -- "I have wanted clairity in light of my lack of light" -- Open water -- Thorns -- Mountain lion -- 3. FALL -- Privacy -- It's the season I often mistake -- How we see each other -- Sports -- Proof -- Heart on fire -- Power lines -- Hooky -- My father's mustache -- Runaway child -- Instrumentation -- If I should fail -- Intimacy -- 4. WINTER -- Lover -- Hurting kind -- Against nostalgia -- Forgiveness -- Heat -- Obedience -- Unspoken -- Salvage -- What is handed down -- Too close -- End of poetry. |
Summary |
"An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Poetry.
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Animals -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Genre |
Poetry.
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ISBN |
9781639550494 (hardcover) |
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