Bibliograph

Pigeon, poems, Karen Solie

Type

Label

Pigeon, poems, Karen Solie

Language

eng

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pigeon

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

632165608

Responsibility statement

Karen Solie

Sub title

poems

Summary

Launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Karen Solie continued her upward trajectory with Modern and Normal. Now, with Pigeon, this singer of existential bewilderment takes another step forward. She finds an analog for the divine in a massive, new model tractor and an analogue for the malign in the face of the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez. Her poems are X-rays of delusions and mistaken perceptions, intellectual explorations of bad luck, creeping catastrophe, and the eros of danger come dressed to kill. Her ear is impeccable and her syntax the key to a rare, razor-sharp po

Table Of Contents

I; Pathology of the Senses; Wild Horses; The Girls; Bone Creek; Wager; The March West; The Prime Minister; ii; Four Factories; Air Show; Bow River Preludes; Tractor; In New Brunswick; The World of Plants; Cave Bear; Pigeon; Archive; iii; Erie; Double; Medicine Hat Calgary One-Way; Casa Mendoza; The Ex-Lovers; Migration; Franklin; Possibly, Therefore; iv; Prayers for the Sick; Listening to The Revelator; Beauty and Reality Are the Same; Meditation on Seaforth; Frontier County; Jesus Heals the Leopard; Dog Star; Geranium; v; Norway; The Cleaners

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