Best Bones
| Other author | Nordgren, Sarah Rose |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press Chicago : Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor] |
| Description | 88 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Series | Pitt Poetry Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation Winner of the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry PrizeBest Bones is a house. When you walk around the rooms of the house, you overhear the desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. The various voices in the house struggle against the family roles and social identities that they must wear like heavy garmentsmother, father, wife, husband, sister, brother, servant, and master. All these voices crave unification; they want to join themselves into one whole sentient being, into a mansion steering itself.The poems in Best Bones also explore the experience of living in a physical body, and how the natural world intersects with manmade landscapes and technologies. In it, mother has a reset button, servants blend into the furniture, and a doctor patiently oversees the pregnancy of the earth.In these poems, the body is a working machine, a repository of childhood myth and archetype, and a window to the spiritual world. The poems strive to be visceral on the level of dream, or of a story that is half remembered and half fabricated. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780822963172 |
| ISBN | 0822963175 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780822963172 |
| Stock number | 00027370 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |