Cardinal points :
Pettit, Michael.
Cardinal points : poems / by Michael Pettit. - 1st ed. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988. - 1 online resource (82 pages) - The Iowa poetry prize . - Iowa poetry prize. .
Series statement from jacket.
Woman jumping from rock to rock -- Sunday stroll -- Evening on a Canadian lake -- Pavlov's dog -- So long, Tuscaloosa -- The flight path -- Man performing back somersault -- Men wrestling -- No birds -- Sparrow of espa�nola -- The uncompahgre range -- Many Buddhists -- Mighty Sebastian Bach -- Los Alamos rush hour -- Sparrow Rousant -- The beyond -- Elderly man lifting log -- Woman turning and lifting train -- Driving lesson -- Virginia evening -- Home again -- Louisiana new year -- National geographic -- Woman emptying bucket of water on seated companion -- Man walking downstairs backwards, turning, walking away while carrying rock -- Willows -- Astral life -- Valentine show at the lingerie shop -- Petting zoo -- March thaw -- House move -- Legless boy climbing in and out of chair -- Man shadowboxing -- Bad back -- The fox hunt -- Furnace without end -- Boat-tailed grackles -- Footsteps -- Star route, box 2 -- Full cry -- Girl walking towards woman, carrying flower -- Cardinal points.
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Strung throughout the book are poems based on the Scottish photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, a historic photographic document. Pettit uses these pioneering images as the basis for his poetic dreaming, and the result is a poignant, integrated sequence of highly moving poems, studded between other vivid lyrics.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
1587291878 9781587291876
22573/ctt20gq42s JSTOR
American poetry.
POETRY--American--General.
American poetry.
American poetry.
Electronic books.
PS3566.E89 / C37 1988eb
811/.54
Cardinal points : poems / by Michael Pettit. - 1st ed. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988. - 1 online resource (82 pages) - The Iowa poetry prize . - Iowa poetry prize. .
Series statement from jacket.
Woman jumping from rock to rock -- Sunday stroll -- Evening on a Canadian lake -- Pavlov's dog -- So long, Tuscaloosa -- The flight path -- Man performing back somersault -- Men wrestling -- No birds -- Sparrow of espa�nola -- The uncompahgre range -- Many Buddhists -- Mighty Sebastian Bach -- Los Alamos rush hour -- Sparrow Rousant -- The beyond -- Elderly man lifting log -- Woman turning and lifting train -- Driving lesson -- Virginia evening -- Home again -- Louisiana new year -- National geographic -- Woman emptying bucket of water on seated companion -- Man walking downstairs backwards, turning, walking away while carrying rock -- Willows -- Astral life -- Valentine show at the lingerie shop -- Petting zoo -- March thaw -- House move -- Legless boy climbing in and out of chair -- Man shadowboxing -- Bad back -- The fox hunt -- Furnace without end -- Boat-tailed grackles -- Footsteps -- Star route, box 2 -- Full cry -- Girl walking towards woman, carrying flower -- Cardinal points.
Use copy
Strung throughout the book are poems based on the Scottish photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, a historic photographic document. Pettit uses these pioneering images as the basis for his poetic dreaming, and the result is a poignant, integrated sequence of highly moving poems, studded between other vivid lyrics.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
1587291878 9781587291876
22573/ctt20gq42s JSTOR
American poetry.
POETRY--American--General.
American poetry.
American poetry.
Electronic books.
PS3566.E89 / C37 1988eb
811/.54