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As the title indicates, these poems are lyrics - musings on the small decisions required by existence in the modern world. They contain the grand themes of art - -life, love, and mortality - but not where you expect. The smallest and most mundane objects become the catalyst for reevaluating our role...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville [Arkansas] :
The University of Arkansas Press,
2016.
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| Series: | University of Arkansas Press poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
- Series editor's preface
- Dead mouse
- Hiroshige
- Nail
- Lightbulb
- Lightbulb
- Kayak for sale
- I have suffered
- Babel
- Laundry
- Crow
- Mosquito
- Out of sleep
- How to clean an oil-slicked penguin
- repairs
- on beauty
- No sign of relief in sight
- Healing
- Overheard
- January thaw
- Glass of milk
- Rock
- Evolution of rock
- Shopping cart
- Seven juncos in the backyard
- Candidate
- Spilled milk
- Plant
- Reading a Chinese poet
- Crow
- Movies
- Don't tell me about love
- Political poem
- Saying
- Dreams
- Wake
- Old age
- Inner city
- Weather
- Depression
- Pornography
- Windows
- How his girlfriend said goodbye
- A good word
- Aftermath
- Meat
- Interlude
- History
- Dust
- Telling stories
- My life as a video game
- Self-portrait at fifty
- What we know of the story so far
- Solitude
- Three variations on Li Po
- Old enough to know better
- Theoretical
- Artist: unknown
- My rival
- Snake bite
- Prayer
- Aphorisms
- After Li Bai
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Brick
- Ghazal
- Haiku
- My feelings
- Fox
- There's no title to this
- Outlook
- Notes.