Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Armantrout, Rae, 1947-
2. Poetry Society of America.

Description

1. 27 p.; 19 cm.

Series statement

1. New American poets chapbook series

Uniform title

1. New American poets chapbook series.

Subject

1. American poetry > 21st century

Contents

1. I. The farrier -- Self-portrait as shedding -- Instrument for oversight -- The glasscutter -- Original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. -- The somnambulist. II. American chestnut blight -- Handsomely legacied hereafter -- Nightblooms -- Death (as a woman) comes for the draughtsman -- Angling, a catalogue -- Cannery manned by patients -- Biography in increments. III. In the afterhour -- Comes again like a costume of foxglove -- The arsonist -- Still life with canary -- Woman with her throat cut -- Spell for protecting the dead from being bitten -- The final report on birds that pose a threat to flight.

Call number

1. JAX B-21500 [24]

Author

1. McHugh, Carey.

Title

1. Original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. / Carey McHugh ; selected and introduced by Rae Armantrout.

Imprint

1. New York : Poetry Society of America, 2008.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Series

1. New American poets chapbook series
2. New American poets chapbook series.

Added author

1. Armantrout, Rae, 1947-
2. Poetry Society of America.

Research call number

1. JAX B-21500 [24]