Hemming flames : poems / by Patricia Colleen Murphy
- Author:
- Murphy, Patricia Colleen, 1970-
- Uniform Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Published:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2016
- Physical Description:
- 67 pages ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Dunn, Stephen, 1939-
- Series:
- May Swenson Poetry Award series ; volume 19
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 Cannery -- Letter 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 Museum -- My Trifecta of Offenses -- With a Whimper.
- Summary:
- "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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781607325512 (cloth)
1607325519 (cloth)
9781607325574 (pbk.)
1607325578 (pbk.)
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