Black flowers : poems /
In dark, lyrical verse, Black Flowers follows a speaker from childhood into adulthood, as he navigates the animistic world of crows, conjurings, and winter snows. Doug Ramspeck guides readers through the brutality and beauty found in the natural world: the moonlight, 'marrow-white, severed, fal...
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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Conjuring
- Winter fever
- Crow hours
- Ancient worlds
- Gravity
- Diaspora
- Notes on beauty: the skull
- Ars poetica with heron and dance
- Fanfare
- Feast and famine
- Skinny dipping
- Song of praise
- Claiming
- Crow art
- How humans came to love
- Birthmark
- Winter schools
- Dust day
- Divining mud
- The body's mud
- Prayer for stones
- Bottomlands departure
- Dreaming of golden flowers
- Feral moon
- Moon letters
- Burying
- Nomads
- Unblessing
- Wintering
- Mother
- Long marriage
- Nine Crows
- Revival
- Paper skin
- Touch
- Black flowers
- Winter snow
- Mud eulogies
- Confession of bats
- Map of the world
- Naming the field.
