Perigee / Diane Kerr.
| Author/creator | Kerr, Diane author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020] |
| Description | ix, 94 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series | Wisconsin poetry series Wisconsin poetry series. ^A1348664 |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: I. Timbered -- Not a woods anyone would want -- Inside the skull cage began -- Let's see, if I was thirteen, then -- A filly for a filly to Me, only me -- Early spring, April maybe, dusk -- Gifts from me -- Side step side step kick kick -- The boots? Yes, that's right -- Red-winged blackbirds swirling above -- Even though the one I really wanted -- After I lead the beloved -- The first time I saw the analyst -- It must have taken my mother hours -- Once, he broke -- He wasn't a Boston priest -- What I had to say on the occasion of Roy Moore's defeat -- When I asked him -- Mother's in the basement mangling -- Afterward, the long ride home -- II. Blue Moon Suite -- Dawn in Jutland: gulls lift a flock of white commas -- My mother's poverty of no shoes not no new shoes -- My mother gave him his Danish name -- Once in a blue moon, my mother says for times -- Who's allowed me to go riding -- It was nighttime and Father was driving -- Blue moon -- When Christine Blasey Ford -- III. Black Fox -- The second time I saw the analyst -- The good child -- Nobody else home -- When Uncle Jim got boils on his back -- After TB took her mother -- So, the farmer's wife called my mother -- Glossary -- He wasn't all that tall -- Third prize for my biggest "hand" one -- The same two dull wool skirts -- Bareback, I have given her her head -- Math class, no matter how she tries -- My father reclines -- The last time, I was walking home -- Someone's planted perennials along Ohio 71 -- Tess's long tale of love -- What I would tell me, the girl playing circus -- I take it back -- Squealing, squirting, rubbing -- It was more wishing -- At the Oakwood Stables Horse Show -- It will throw them all off, so -- October sliding into November -- The girl I read about -- A black fox sometimes followed me -- IV. Zinc -- And then what? -- Rachel at thirteen, granddaughter -- Am I riding toward -- Not many people know my dog is a horse -- My mother tells me -- When the newborn -- What is joy if not spindle-legged -- Bareback and barefoot, a daisy chain -- What exactly happened? -- Covered in that black goop -- When my mother had brain tumor surgery -- -- You call up the tough kid -- My mother had this awful fear -- Now, I live six hundred miles away -- Let me sing you -- He Showed Up Again Last Night -- I have allowed myself -- I've gone back there -- Why this? Why now? -- He's safe now, dead somewhere. |
| General note | Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 2020016449 |
| ISBN | 9780299330248 paperback |
| ISBN | 0299330249 paperback |
| Standard identifier# | 40030483250 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3611 .E7634 P47 2020 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |