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Advice from the lights : poems / Stephen Burt.
Author
Burt, Stephanie, 1971-
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Uniform title
Poems.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
©2017
Description
106 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS3552.U7695 A6 2017
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Subject(s)
American poetry
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Burt, Stephanie 1971-
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Poetry
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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poetry
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Summary note
"Stephen is sometimes Stephanie and sometimes wonders how his past and her past are their own collective memory. Advice from the Lights is a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity and a series of looks at a formative past. It's part nostalgia, part confusion, and part an ongoing wondering: How do any of us achieve adulthood? And why would we want to, if we had the choice? This collection is woven from and interrupted by extraordinary sequences, including Stephanie poems about Stephen's female self; poems on particular years of the poet's early life, each with its own memories, desires, insecurities, and pop songs; and versions of poems by the Greek poet Callimachus, whose present-day incarnation worries (who doesn't?) about mortality, the favor of the gods, and the career of Taylor Swift. The collection also includes poems on politics, location, and parenthood. Taken all together, this is Stephen Burt's most personal and most accomplished collection, an essential work that asks who we are, how we become ourselves, and why we make art"-- Page [4] of cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Contents : Ice for the Ice Trade
My 1979
Hermit Crab
Princess Stephanie
A covered bridge in Littleton, New Hampshire
My 1980
Over Sacramento
Kites
Swans at a pond by JFK Airport
To the naked mole rats at the National Zoo
My 1981
Inside outside Stephanie
Scarlet, a Betta
Roly-Poly bug
After Callimachus (So reactionaries...)
Palinode with Playmobil Figurines
My 1982
Fifth Grade time capsule
Cloud studies
My 1983
Black raspberry canes
First kiss Stephanie
Taboos at twelve
Esprit Stephanie
After Callimachus (Half of me...)
The Cars' greatest hits
Mean girls
My 1985
Fairy story Stephanie
Herring gull
Electrical Flora
My 1986
Water strider
Gymnastics Stephanie
Cicadas
My 1987
School smoking lounge Stephanie
Palinode with study guide, spackling knife, and sewing kit
After Callimachus (Why do I write?)
Sadder
A nickel on top of a penny
Advice from the lights
Anubis
Paper Stephanie
Helium
A crime at Pattaya
The sun rising
Royal botanical
Pastorale
Advice or prayer for airports
Indian Stream Republic
Écossaise
Spoken for a pair of ferrets
After Callimachus (It's hard work...)
Tierra Stephanie
Secondhand flashlight
Creative writing
Final exam Stephanie
Advice for holding together
Tourmalines
Washingtonian
Advice from Rock Creek Park
Suspense
December 2016
Resolved
Fuzzy Golem doll with 6" keychain
Concord grapes
White Lobelia
Notes
Acknowledgments.
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ISBN
9781555977894 ((paperback))
1555977898 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017930116
OCLC
965730495
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