Tiger Heron.

Appearance and disguise--in a Costa Rican rainforest, a West Village repair shop, or an intimate relationship--reveal the turbulence that undergirds daily life, as families and places undergo change. In "Elegy for the Norther Flying Squirrel" and "Divers," Becker takes up the sci...

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Main Author: Becker, Robin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
©2014
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1306555426
9781306555425
9780822979616
0822979616
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Prairie dogs
  • To a poet
  • Hospice
  • A last go
  • Modern death
  • Post time
  • Storm King Sculpture Park
  • Kouros
  • Herself
  • Late June owl
  • Old Florida
  • Elegy for the Northern flying squirrel
  • In Montefiore Cemetery
  • Our best selves
  • And so forth
  • Rescue parable
  • The weight
  • Her lies
  • Repair
  • The middle path
  • Understory
  • Xenia
  • Harriers
  • Wearing mother's high school ring
  • The sounds of Yiddish
  • Rescue riddle
  • Divers
  • False summit
  • Taking down the sculptor's horse
  • Legacy children
  • Dog person
  • The Civil War comes to town
  • Threesome interval
  • The dog I didn't want
  • Mushrooms
  • The island
  • Dyke
  • When you look at the spines of your books
  • Holiday
  • Listening to Bach on Rt. 89
  • The plum tree
  • Provisioned.