Nice fish: new and selected prose poemsA collection of prose poetry about ordinary people in ordinary situations |
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Contents
he Ukrainian Easter Egg | 6 |
Asleep at the Wheel | 18 |
Confessional Poem | 24 |
Copyright | |
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afternoon Ally Press asleep baby BASKETBALL beautiful blowing canoe child coffee dark door dress Eighties Press Football forest formal poem Frost Flowers gate gray hair hand Human Gesture Island Jason Language of Crows light listen living look Lost Boy Louis Jenkins MARGARET LUOMA Marriage miles Mind Reader mother motorcycle move Nice fish Night Room Overlooking Lake Superior perhaps pile POEMS Corkscrew Poetry pole Pool Game popple prose poem pulls quiet place Restaurant Overlooking Lake road Robert Bly sailors Sainthood says seems shadows sits Snow Hollows someone somewhere Spontaneous Combustion stands Streets Tangled Tell a Wolf thing thought town trees turns Ukrainian Easter Egg UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN View from Scovill waits walking wall watch Watkins Well-Digger's Wife wheel wind window Winter Light woman wrench
References to this book
The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre Michel Delville No preview available - 1998 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Nice fish: new and selected prose poems |
| Author | Louis Jenkins |
| Publisher | Holy Cow!Press, 1996 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 10, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0930100611, 9780930100612 |
| Length | 70 pages |
| Subjects | › Antiques & Collectibles / Americana Poetry / General Prose poems, American |
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