Hemming flames : poems / by Patricia Colleen Murphy.
"Winner of the 2016 Swenson Poetry Award, this collection explores themes of pain and loss as they emerge especially within a dysfunctional family. Includes a foreword by Stephen Dunn, American poet, teacher, and essayist, who was the judge for the 2016 award"--Provided by publisher.
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| Other title: | Poems. Selections |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | May Swenson Poetry Award series ;
v. 19. |
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Contents; Foreword by Stephen Dunn; Losing Our Milk Teeth; Bridges All Over the Room; My Brother, Hoarding; How the Body Moves; Throwing the Proper Tantrums; XVIIIe Arrondissement; Immolate; Cutlass Ciera; Kitten; My Armamentarium; Is It the Sea You Hear in Me?; Good Morning, Mediocrity; Meet the Author; Night Falling, Czechoslovakia; Edison's Medicine; Why I Burned Down Namdaemun Gate; High Hopes, Bad Habits; Turkish Get-Ups; Feeding Peeping Tom; Scrotum and Bone; The Year of Our Comorbidity; The Princess of Creeping; Reading Sexton in Phuket; Bulb; Murmur; The Birth of No.
- Midnight at Orca CanneryLetter from the Psych Ward, Hospital Kashenko; My Mittelschmerz; Arch on a Rung; This Is Not a Pipe; Song of a Misanthrope; Lunatic Years; Halloween in the Tank; Incommunicado; From The Book of Attacks; Songs in Kiswahili; Break in the Chain; Flatline; How I Learned That Everyone Is Ridiculous; Where Are You, Gravity?; Everyone is Eviscerated; Liminal; Memory as Diary; Take the Late Flight; On Being Orphaned; After Rumi's Birdwings; Crave; What Flickers; Perennial; Rank Bitch; Dad's Last Entrechat; Crushings; Bizarre Part; On Being Born; Climbing; Not Having Them.
- The Linger MuseumMy Trifecta of Offenses; With a Whimper; Acknowledgments; About the Author.