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02814aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 06B1ACDA6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 151009s2016 pau b 000 p eng d 020 $a 0887486096 020 $a 9780887486098 035 $a (OCoLC)923650116 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d OCLCQ $d PIT $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3616 E347 N66 2016 100 1 $a Pedersen, Lynn $e author. 245 10 $a Nomenclature of small things / $c Lynn Pedersen. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh : $b Carnegie Mellon University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 78 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 1 $a Carnegie Mellon poetry series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-78). 505 00 $t Dickinsonia. $t The infinite density of grief -- $t The birth of superstition -- $t Nomenclature: the first day -- $t Miscarriage -- $t Eve paints the apple trees -- $t The sterility of numbers -- $t How to speak nineteenth century -- $t A catalog of what we're not meant to see -- $t The rift -- $t Isaac Newton waits out the plague -- $t Wilson's warbler -- $t The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean by Federic Remington (1896) -- $t How to move away -- $t Something about Darwin ; $t Catalog II. $t Begin -- $t After seven months, Alaskans begin to bury their dead -- $t A brief history of the passenger pigeon -- $t Pre-Op -- $t Taxonomy:taxidermy -- $t Correction -- $t Platypus:Hoax -- $t Decay -- $t Found poem: Sir Hamon L'Estrange gives the only documented account of a living dodo in Britain, 1638 -- $t What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain -- $t Pond -- $t Hangman -- $t I hate Darwin -- $t Horse latitudes -- $t Grief and geometry -- $t Primer -- $t What is still, what is moving ; $t Catalog III. $t The classification of impermanence -- $t The second son -- $t Braids -- $t Ballast -- Stil life -- $t My grandmother peels apples for sauce -- $t Why we speak English -- $t The quick of things -- $t Selling skies at the Soho Bazaar, 1790 -- $t At forty -- $t Darwin's twin sister -- $t Sugar in space -- $t On reading about the illness and death of Darwin's daughter Annie -- $t A way with words -- $t Dickinsonia. 520 1 $a "Here are poems quietly wise, beautiful, beguiling, and enriched by the peculiarities and spectacularities of science. Guiding them is a poet tough-skinned by tenderhearted. In giving accounts of a wide array of ALIVE-in-our-world, Lynn Pedersen's poems shimmer. And among the multitudes of creatures, wwe find grief to be but another animal "that can depart and return with a soft shudder of feathers." These are poems to save and/or devour." $c --Nance Van Winckel. 830 0 $a Carnegie Mellon poetry. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180124030925.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161202022358.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06B1ACDA6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search