Spit
"The poems in Spit explore the life of a boy growing up on a farm populated with chickens, captive wolves, and a herd of llamas learning to survive among a chaotic family and coyotes. The collection in part explores the role of a body, health, and illness and humans' treatment of the earth...
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| Language: | English |
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Michigan State University Press,
2021
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| Series: | Wheelbarrow Bks.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. The Llama Named James and John Sons of Thunder
- Laws of Motion
- The Wolves Next Door
- The Lives of Chickens
- Cheers
- The Leaning Barn
- An Account of a Llama's Death
- Sinkhole
- Tasting Moonshine
- Spit
- II. Mom Woke to a Coyote Staring in Her Window
- Myself, a Barbed Wire
- Blood Lungs
- How to Pet a Llama
- Taking in the Stray
- Taking Care
- Lyme
- Silent Treatment
- On the Fellowship of Rabies
- Climates
- Bottom Land
- It's No Good
- Brush Fire
- At the Storm Cellar
- III. The Afterlife
- Tussle
- Leaving the Farm
- Portrait of Truth as a Satisfied Belly
- Evolution Chart
- Everywhere the Salt
- The Way Home
- IV. Breakage
- Inadequate Prayers
- Final Visit
- Nothing is Clean in the Country
- Monochromatic Untethering
- End of the Llamas
- The Light and Where It Lives
- Finishing the Harvest
- The Lesser Distances.
