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Author:
Polk, Noel.
Title:
Walking safari : or, The hippo highway and other poems / Noel Polk.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Texas Review Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
98 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Safaris--Zambia--Poetry.
Zambia--Poetry.
Mississippi--Poetry.
Race relations--Poetry.
Contents:
Prome -- Pomespeak -- HIV hospital, Lusaka -- Walking safari -- Warthog: sooey generis -- Hyena I : king of the jungle -- Hyena II : king of beasts -- Spitting cobras -- Snake in the bed : a virginal -- Cat eyes -- Big cats -- A croc -- A compleat croc -- Giraffe ruminant : what they chew on -- Thirteen ways of looking at a hippopotamus -- Old possum's hippopotamus -- Hippo highways -- Reading dung -- :oscopy -- Compound Lusaka : pictures at an inhibition -- Undertow -- I make love to a fat woman, ca. 1960 -- Many men would not have chosen beauty -- I sonned a father -- My mother's roses -- Running the hypotenuse -- To Jennifer at seven, after her dance recital -- To Scott at five, calling in the night -- Girl on the Ocracoke ferry -- I saw her leaning -- Birth defects -- The old man who loves his wife -- Lady of Pompeii -- At night, in a dry storm driving -- Wreck -- An armadillo -- To the Surgeon General -- John Boy redux -- The function of the line -- The runner knows -- X-ray -- The preacher tries to make sense -- The old man listens to the wind, the spirit of departed friends -- Requiem -- L'envoi.
ISBN:
1933896744 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781933896748 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)730906324
LCCN:
2011023203
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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