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Cardinal points : poems / by Michael Pettit.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Iowa poetry prizePublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (82 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587291878
  • 9781587291876
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cardinal points.DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 19
LOC classification:
  • PS3566.E89 C37 1988eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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Series statement from jacket.

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.

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.

Print version record.

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