Book
The black bear inside me / Robin Becker.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780822965244
- ISBN: 0822965240
- Physical Description: viii, 61 pages ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 59). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Clearing -- Moment of amazement -- Two dogs, one wise -- Elegy for the science teacher -- Bluefish, 1970 -- Coppice and Pollard -- Yankee barn sale -- Reading music -- Scottish melodies -- Hearing the news -- Whitetail spring -- The black bear inside me -- Theory -- Alex, an obituary -- Hummingbird -- The collection of the canter -- True blue communications man -- Missing -- Security clearance -- The wages of sin -- Ballroom -- At the memorial -- On the Grand Canal -- Provisional ode -- Men as friends -- Semblance -- The broker -- The annual performance review -- Taken into account -- The Barcelona inside me -- Rodeo Ben -- Make it plain -- Where the unfairness of the world resides -- Blast off -- Words with friends -- The fix. |
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| Subject: | American poetry > 20th century. American poetry > 21st century. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Pease Public Library | 811.6 BECKER
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The Black Bear Inside Me
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Summary
The Black Bear Inside Me
Becker celebrates the interconnectedness of creatures and places--never losing sight that much will turn out precarious, illusory, provisional. These poems speak, in ardent voices, about our affinities: an articulate, black bear mourns habitat loss; a frail man and failing dog become one; a scientist and her African grey parrot research language acquisition for thirty years. Ecologies interlace, as when a troubled family "sacrifices one member,/ as plants surrender leaves in times of drought." Becker responds with rage and wit to corporate excess and intractable geo-politics. Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando; the terrors facing Cambodian teenagers working fishing boats. Wise, capacious, by turns unsettling and joyous, The Black Bear Inside Me incorporates histories and losses into a luminous present.
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