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" Spar : "
by Karen Volkman.
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BL
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997689
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b752059
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| Main Entry
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Volkman, Karen.
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| Title & Author
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Spar : : poems /\ by Karen Volkman.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2002.
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| Series Statement
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Iowa poetry prize
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (57 pages).
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| ISBN
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1587294168
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: 9781587294167
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0877458073
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9780877458074
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| Contents
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Create Desire -- I won't go in today -- Shrewd star -- The problem of these -- ''Why are you here'' -- If it be event -- Meet me two years -- More feet on more -- May -- What, I said -- There comes a time -- What we know -- Kiss Me Deadly -- O verb, o void -- Lady of the lake -- August could ask -- Yellow drapes -- Although the paths -- There was a stare -- And when the nights -- It could be a bird -- Poem (My hayseed harlequin) -- Or would triumph -- Octaves, ovations -- The first greeting -- I was watching -- Now I promise -- When kiss spells -- Betrayal -- He deciphers -- Tender feather -- Yes the red flower -- A story left -- I never wish to -- Dear noon -- Shadow of a Doubt -- The rain falls -- Winter Abstract -- A light says why -- O coronet -- The end of the day -- Implorers, connivers -- What I meet of -- And the urge is less -- Poem (Black corners of winter) -- They make it go -- I have a friend -- To take, to make -- Do not think, beloved -- Lost he says -- Heroic Roses -- No noise subtracts -- I believe there is -- We did things.
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| Abstract
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Karen Volkman's award-winning collection Spar has as its central form a highly compressed, musical variant of the prose poem. Volkman develops a new lyric density that marries the immediacy of image-centered poetry to the rhythmic resources of prose. Her first poem begins, "Someone was searching for a Form of Fire," and this wild urge to seek form--and thus definition--in the most uncontainable of elements propels the book forward; each poem maps the mind's evolving positions in response to its variable and perilous encounters.
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American poetry.
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Poetry.
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American poetry.
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POETRY-- American-- General.
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Poetry.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.54
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PS3572.O3947S63 2002eb
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