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Angela Sorby
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Publication date
February 16, 2009
Pages
79
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780299231941
ISBN-10
0299231941
Dimensions
0.25 by 6.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "Bird Skin Coat" is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape. With wild lyrical images of ascent and descent - doves and dives, sparrows and slugs, attics and cellars - this collection reflects Sorby's keen eye for blending images. As they shuttle between the Upper Midwest and the Pacific Northwest, these poems explore how the radical instability of the world is also the source of its energy. The woman he hit is still 42. She notes with wonder how her parka fits her perfectly the way a dove's skin holds the whole bird together. 'Fate is not a thing with feathers, it's old, bald, and blind, a pope who can't decipher the man's name, David Pratt, as he scrawls it on scratch paper' - excerpt from "Bird Skin Coat" [copyright]. The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.
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Hardcover
from Univ of Wisconsin Pr (February 16, 2009)
9780299231903 | details & prices | 79 pages | 7.00 × 10.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $26.95
About: Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape.
About: Bird Skin Coat is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape.
Paperback
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from Univ of Wisconsin Pr (February 16, 2009)
9780299231941 | details & prices | 79 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 0.25 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $14.95
About: "Bird Skin Coat" is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape.
About: "Bird Skin Coat" is brimming with startling moments of beauty found within a rusty and decayed landscape.
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