System of ghosts : poems /

In System of Ghosts, Lindsay Tigue details the way landscape speaks to isolation and personhood, how virtual and lived networks alter experience. She questions how built environments structure lives, how we seek out information within these spaces, and, most fundamentally, how we love. Rooted in the...

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Main Author: Tigue, Lindsay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781609384029
1609384024
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; I.; II.; III.; Notes; Millions; Directions; Solitary, Imaginary; How to Adjust to Time Zones; City of Light; The Trajectory of Oranges; Bliss; Abandoned Places; Adapted; Little Grand Canyon in Yellow; Elevator; We are a System of Ghosts; Convergent Boundaries; How to Care for Buffalo Horns; History of Rooms; Abandoned Places; Michigan Central Station Has Been Closed Since 1988; For the Ghost You Might Become; Leap; To Disappear in Michigan; My Dad's Brother Called Every Year for Five Years Then Disappeared; Strange Ducks; New Year; Canopic Jars.
  • Abandoned PlacesDrop; Frontier Airlines; The Center of the Earth is a Little Off Kilter; E-How; How to Measure the Weight of Snow; The Body Travels; Neighbors; Huron; Linear Foreign Bodies; White-Nose Syndrome; Progress Without End; Abandoned Places; Interview Practice; Minor Planets; Alms for the Birds; Needs Assessment.