This Dirty Little Heart

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The voice of B. T. Shaw in this prize-winning first collection is unlike what readers of American poetry are likely to find elsewhere. Heady, wry, private, sometimes ironic, it speaks from edges where the inner life surveys the objects and actions of that collective life-narrative we call the world. This Dirty Little Heart is a singular accomplishment—almost eccentric, yet it manages to reveal to the reader countless recognitions, countless reasons to be happy we're alive. ...
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Overview

The voice of B. T. Shaw in this prize-winning first collection is unlike what readers of American poetry are likely to find elsewhere. Heady, wry, private, sometimes ironic, it speaks from edges where the inner life surveys the objects and actions of that collective life-narrative we call the world. This Dirty Little Heart is a singular accomplishment—almost eccentric, yet it manages to reveal to the reader countless recognitions, countless reasons to be happy we're alive.
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Alberto Alvaro Rios
"These poems are works of immediately evident force. The telling in them is everything, and the voice that speaks them is new. Never regular, the language is itself part of the story. . . . These are poems born of what stays with us, from those raw things that are, quite simply, beyond memory."
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781597660402
  • Publisher: Lynx House Book
  • Publication date: 3/28/2008
  • Pages: 67
  • Sales rank: 1,358,903
  • Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author

B.T. SHAW grew up in central Ohio near her great-grandparents' homestead. Now settled in Portland with her husband and children, she edits the poetry column for The Oregonian and teaches writing and literature at Portland State University and the University of Portland, as well as through writers-in-the-schools programs. She holds a BS from the University of Oregon and an MFA from the University of Washington. This Dirty Little Heart is her first book.
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Table of Contents

The Importance of Fingers in a Rhetoric of Gesture Hunger No. 2 Venus Images in Answer to Biology We Bring the Wrong Tools Apiary Licking Country: 1931
Portrait of My Grandfather as Rhett Butler And When I Hear That Voice I Feel a Great Joy Field Notes on the Family Physical Law Hubert, N.C.
The Past in Thirteen Presents The First Time Your Daughter Runs Away from Home Sympathetic Response Rehearsal Notes for Adoptive Mother By Now No Doubt

Revisionary One More Name You Won't Associate with Water After a Fashion Solo It Goes Without Saying We End, Like Galileo Even Eve Forgetting May Be Part of the Process of Remembering New Math Terra Firma Blues Most Accidents Occur at Home Spring Comes to the Mistress of Obvious Margin of Error The Invisible Woman vs. Mr. Fantastic To Avoid Unnecessary Death State of the State of Affairs Absent-minded Boy with Goose Like This, Only More So What We Made To the Ex-Husband's Newborn:
Aftermath Put Thou My Tears into Thy Bottle Winging It
3.10
The Human Body

Notes Acknowledgments

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