Tavel, Adam, authorUniversity of Alaska Press, publisher2022-04-212022-04-212015https://hdl.handle.net/10217/2347622014 winner of the Permafrost Prize series award.I. Blizzard Sweat -- Having Drunk Two-Thirds of a Bottle of Riesling during Her Office Hours, Professor Adler Lectures on the Venus of Willendorf -- Our Currency of Air -- The Young Painter Rejects Eakins' Gross Clinic, 1875 -- Aubade for Sesame Street at 3:27 a.m. Ending with a Line from Snyder -- New Flag -- Death March from the Siege of Kut, 1916 -- Sometimes, at Seven -- A Medici Servant Recounts Leo X's Coronation -- Cento from the Church of the Nazarene's Advent Marquee -- William Tecumseh Sherman Speaks on the Burning of Old Sheldon Church, South Carolina, 1865 -- How Her Pearls -- II. On Certain Theories of Capitalism; Fever Dream in which Anne Sexton Is My Mother Begging for Her Job at the Sunshine Supermart after Her Third Reprimand for Tardiness -- From Her Deathbed Harriet Bailey Chronicles the Fifth and Final Trek to Her Son Frederick Douglass -- The Rocket -- Witness 483: Phoenix Lights Incident, 1997 -- Dry Lightning -- The Great Disappointment -- Charles Altamont Doyle Writes to His Son Arthur Conan from the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, 1888 -- The Fever Room -- What Creature -- Into the Primitive -- Ananogmius within the Body Cavity of Xiphactinus -- III. The Redskins Logo's Soliloquy -- Still Life with Denver Broncos Duffel Bag, 1989 -- Marlboro Purslane -- Erasure: Tattered Copy of Ezra Jack Keats' Whistle for Willie Discharged by the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs' Preschool Lending Library -- The Clay Is Vile Beneath Our Feet -- Widow's Lament -- At Sixty Weeks -- On Certain Theories of Guitar -- The Throat an Open Grave -- Delirium Tremens: Keith Moon at Laguna Beach, 1978 -- On a Photograph of Jeffers with His Granddaughter Una, Carmel, 1953 -- Joseph's Apocrypha -- IV. Ode to Noah Caterpillar Jackson, 1807-1880 -- Two Mosquitoes -- The Birth of Things to Come -- Recital with Tenebrae -- Seven Post-It Notes for the Philosophy Department's New Work-Study Aide -- Gut Shot, Alifair McCoy Prays to Wisps of Floccus -- Target Practice -- A Surrogate Suicide Note for Carol Frost Written with a Murder of Shaftsbury Crows -- The Wolfman's Confession to the Salisbury Police Department -- Ghazal for Toadspawn -- Plash & Levitation.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.PoetryTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only.