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03266aam a22003498i 4500 001 F2760D246B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150729s2015 mnu 000 p eng 010 $a 2015022371 020 $a 1571314806 020 $a 9781571314802 035 $a (OCoLC)911365045 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BDX $d UOK $d BKL $d CDX $d OCLCF $d GZM $d CUV $d KSU $d CHVBK $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3623 I57765 A6 2015 100 1 $a Willoughby, Jennifer, $d 1970- $e author. 240 10 $a Poems. $k Selections 245 10 $a Beautiful zero : $b poems / $c Jennifer Willoughby. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Minneapolis : $b Milkweed Editions, $c 2015. 300 $a 51 pages ; $c 22 cm 586 $a "Winner of the 2015 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry"--Back cover. 520 $a "Incantatory, intimate, and incendiary, the poems of this award-winning debut are filled with explosive wit and humor like "a knife you donÌt see coming." A kaleidoscopic intelligence flows through Beautiful Zero, embracing forms of culture high and low in effort to finding meaning in the chaos. Poems about Shark Week and college football sit beside Roman Polanski and biting critiques of modern war. A series of poems set in a Kaiser Permanente hospital tear into the world of privatized health care while simultaneously charting a story of love in the face of catastrophe. Yet even at her most surreal, Willoughby always finds the pulsing heart at the core of the poem. She embraces what she cannot understand about both the world and herself because after all, "Nothing is as random as they say it is. / You were born the weirdo that you are"--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a Come close then back away -- The properties of women are the properties of life -- Do not be broken by the day -- The whole ugly empire -- Be not inhospitable to strangers -- Fun house -- The one you have to love -- Shark Week -- Their joy is right in front of them -- Bringing in the noir -- How we love geography -- Ranger buster jangle -- St. Deceiver in the garden -- We seek a shepherd or a sign -- Losing the plot -- These bones will rise again -- Country on fire -- Memoir so far -- Blunder -- This year has my name on it -- Kaiser variations 1 -- Kaiser variations 2 -- Kaiser variations 3 -- Kaiser variations 4 -- Kaiser variations 5 -- Kaiser variations 6 -- Kaiser variations 7 -- Kaiser variations 8 -- Kaiser variations 9 -- Kaiser variations 10 -- House of sleep -- Your problem is forest fires -- Wave if you see me -- I have a secret admirer -- The sun is still a part of me -- It is not entirely my fault -- Wisconsin space odyssey -- Fun house 2 -- I am a person of hidden talents -- We work the dark like the moon -- A hundred efforts have been made -- On track at Appomattox -- Compos mentis -- I am free to destroy myself -- In the absence lives the feeling -- The universe is contracting and expanding. 600 10 $a Willoughby, Jennifer, $d 1970- $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Hospital patients $v Poetry. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171227014456.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161006024444.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2760D246B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search