W. J. Herbert

Dear Specimen: Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

"In poems written for the daughter she will leave behind, the dying speaker of "Dear Specimen" examines grief, culpability, and love, asking: what value can we ascribe to our lives and do we as a species deserve to survive?"--

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Produktdetails

• National Poetry
• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 134mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 156g
• ISBN-13: 9780807007594
• ISBN-10: 0807007595
• Artikelnr.: 60942428

Autorenporträt

W.J. Herbert

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Kwame Dawes
I
A Homo Sapiens on the Brink of Extinction Speaks to the Fossil Mosasaurus
Lyuba
Speak to Me
After a Miscarriage, My Daughter Asks
Millipede
Aerial View
Least Tern
Seamless Bead
Embryonic Daughter
Fragile Eagle
II
Mounting the Dove Box
Resin Specimen
Dark Season
Dusky and Zigzag Salamanders
The Seer
Nautiloid
After My Diagnosis, Sarah Asks
Water Scorpion, Magnified 40x
Waterfowl, Dovekie
White-Tail
III
Celestial Mechanics
American Beaver
After His Nightmare, Sarah Asks
Fledgling
Speciesism
Squander
Tipping Point
Errant Eagle
Put Bones in Pit When Finished
If Oil Rigs Raise You Like Lazarus from the Shale of the Permian Basin
IV
Abnormal Echo
Before the Bonfire
Bridge Constructs in Modern Technology
Cardinal, You Would Not Believe
Hybrid
A Pastoral Topography
Riddles of Flock & Bone
Homo Sapiens
In the End, Sarah Asks
Shanidar, First Flower People
V
The Smell of Almost Rain
Sea Lily
At the Museum of Permian Extinctions
Triage
American Copperhead
After My Burial, Sarah Asks
Dear Specimen
Day Shift/Night Shift
At the Sea Floor Exploration Exhibit, Sarah Asks
Epilogue: To a Trilobite
Acknowledgments