| American Flamingo Contributor(s): Pape, Greg (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809326221 ISBN-13: 9780809326228 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: Taking its title from an Audubon painting, "American Flamingo" shares with the artist an exquisite attention to detail and the suggestion of a larger sense of time and place through depictions of the intimate interactions between creatures and their habitats. In his fifth collection of poetry, Greg Pape melds memorable images from the natural world with the drama of ordinary experience to capture small transformations of human character in American settings from Arizona's Sonora Desert to the icy streets of Washington, D.C. Through elegies, character sketches, and lyric and narrative evocations of family and place, Pape offers lucid and startling poems that bridge the spaces between the past and the present, men and women, and urban and rural landscapes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2004022124 |
| Series: Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 6.6" W x 9.06" (0.40 lbs) 89 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Taking its title from an Audubon painting, American Flamingo shares with the artist an exquisite attention to detail and the suggestion of a larger sense of time and place through depictions of the intimate interactions between creatures and their habitats. In his fifth collection of poetry, Greg Pape melds memorable images from the natural world with the drama of ordinary experience to capture small transformations of human character in American settings from Arizona's Sonora Desert to the icy streets of Washington, D.C. Through elegies, character sketches, and lyric and narrative evocations of family and place, Pape offers lucid and startling poems that bridge the spaces between the past and the present, men and women, and urban and rural landscapes. |