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Death of a ventriloquist : poems /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fay-LeBlanc, Gibson, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2012]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 19.
Subjects:
Fatherhood > Poetry.
Ventriloquists > Poetry.
Ventriloquism > Poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Rider unhorsed
  • On leaving home
  • Guide
  • The largest of the circus animals
  • Oakland work crew
  • Worry bone
  • Notes on thirty years in the life of a ventriloquist
  • The end of reading
  • Learning to wait
  • American beech
  • Inspiration
  • Ventriloquist on an off-day
  • Panic grass and feverfew
  • Phaeton
  • Ventriloquist on the moor
  • Still life, Young Woman at the Water's Edge
  • Park City Grille
  • A brief history of the decline
  • The origin of pigeons
  • One of the dummies at night
  • Explanation beginning with a river
  • Maker
  • Wildflowers of North America
  • Self-portrait as a word ending in e
  • Notes on colic
  • How to make fatherhood lyrical
  • Music in my head
  • Death of a ventriloquist
  • Proof #4
  • Visiting Chicago
  • Four planes of experience
  • Rattling funicular
  • Caravaggio's Peter
  • The prayer of glass
  • Disabused sonnet
  • The perhaps world
  • Pull
  • The worst first line
  • More matter, less art
  • The nots.