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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Language: | English |
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University of Pittsburgh Press,
2014.
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ISBN: | 1306555426 9781306555425 9780822979616 0822979616 |
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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.