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Book

Bonfire opera

Call Number

  • 811 L239 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

Physical Description

xi, 84 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary

Poems in praise of the impossible, wild world and its beauty. Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, "bee-stung, drunk" in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake.

Contents

  • Xi. Scrub Jays
  • I. Berkley
  • Worlds in Worlds
  • Service Station
  • The Watch
  • Threshold
  • Bonfire Opera
  • Hawks
  • II. Omens
  • The Grass
  • Rites of Winter
  • O Darkness
  • The Bedouin Dress
  • Dressing for the Burial
  • The Cat
  • Working in the Garden, I Think of My Son
  • Coyote
  • III. Bird
  • Chance
  • Iris
  • Reading My Valentine's Poem to Frank X. Gaspar
  • Sexting
  • Trouble
  • Detour
  • Don't Tempt the Monks
  • Surfer Girl
  • IV. Ashbuds
  • Red Tights
  • Mosquitoes
  • Edible
  • Blackerries
  • Dragonflies
  • Satin and Lace
  • Newtonian Nocturne
  • Elegy in an Orchard
  • V. Dust
  • Duende
  • Feeding the Worms
  • Egg
  • Ghost Child
  • Palm Trees
  • Improvement
  • Small Kindnesses
  • Passion Fish
  • Aubade with a Chance of Rain
  • Stone.

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