Hold Like Owls

Auteur: Koets, Julia; Finney, Nikky
Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
Collection: South Carolina Poetry Book Prize
ISBN: 9781611170849
eISBN Pdf: 9781611172652
eISBN Epub: 9781611172652
Lieu de publication: South Carolina , United States
Année de publication électronique: 2013
Mois : Janvier
Langue: Anglais

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Selected by 2011 National Book Award winner Nikky Finney as the seventh annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Hold Like Owls is the first book-length collection from Julia Koets. Full of imagery deeply embedded in memories of growing up in the American South, Koets explores what it means to hold—to carry memories—and what to hold onto and what to let go. Birds turn into paper, a voice fits inside a chestnut shell, and moths eat stars through a woolen sky as the collection evokes nuance within the ordinary, reframes childhood memory, and engages the themes of the night, sensuality, and desire. Whether questioning personal histories, language, sexual identity, or love, the collection honors the "gentle corners of the night" that allow for questioning and uncertainty to exist.

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
I
- Paper Birds
- Woman Drawn with Stars
- Shrug of Broken Egg, Frozen Shell
- Fruit in Bed
- White on the Fence
- Apples and Aristophanes
- Blue Hour
- The Sweet of Strawberries
- When loss leans like a broken tree
- Gift to a Girl in Phoenix
- Above the Floor
- Bruise
- Wanderings
- Wide-Eyed and Song
II
- Gentle Corners of the Night
- About Boats
- Beauty Secrets
- Lantern Bloom
- Boxes of Old Photographs
- Possums
- Parking Lot Market
- Oconee Bells
- Curve of the Belly
- Moth and Moon
- A History of Hair
- Sun would catch
III
- Calico Street
- After It's Over
- For Julia in Little Armenia
- Octave
- Early Psalm
- Buttered Toast
- Plaster Dust
- Hold Like Owls
- Even Haystacks
- One Afternoon
- My Quixote
- Losing Noon
- When It Starts to Rain in San Francisco
IV
- As Far as March
- Hidden There
- Joy, the Elephant, Greenville Zoo, 1990
- Counting Pelicans
- Encounters with Buzzards
- December Hemlock
- Blue House on Wheat Street
- Larks at Dawn
- Kume and the Washerwoman
  - i. Fallen
  - ii. Worn Too Thin
- Painting on Silk
- Ruin