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02772aam a22003138i 4500 001 288F6E78550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 181007s2019 nyu b 000 0 eng c 010 $a 2018046579 020 $a 0393652386 020 $a 9780393652383 035 $a (OCoLC)1037809249 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3603 A7534 L69 2019 100 1 $a Carlson-Wee, Anders, $e author. 245 14 $a The low passions : $b poems / $c Anders Carlson-Wee. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1902 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2019] 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "In this haunting debut, 'Anders Carlson-Wee makes the rugged physical and emotional world of the upper plains our world' (B. H. Fairchild). Explosive and incantatory, The Low Passions traces the fringes of the American experiment through the eyes of a young drifter. Pathologically frugal, reckless, and vulnerable, the narrator of these viscerally compelling poems hops freight trains, hitchhikes, dumpster dives, and sleeps in the homes of total strangers, scavenging forgotten and hardscrabble places for tangible forms of faith. Amplified by a chorus of monologues from the strangers who shelter him, and the family he's left behind, a range of strong-willed characters takes shape--made manifest by the poet's devoted ear and sensitive eye"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Riding the owl's eye -- County 19 -- Dynamite -- Finding Scott -- Great Plains Food Bank -- Leaving Fargo -- Birdcalls -- Living -- Icefisher -- McDonald's -- Primer -- The muscles in their throats -- Lodestar -- Gathering firewood on tinpan -- Cousin Scott on doomsday -- Asking for work at flathead Bible -- Jim Tucker lets me sleep in his treehouse -- To the rail cop at Rathdrum -- Earshot -- Flood of '97 -- The raft -- Cousin Scott on family -- Old church -- Moorcroft -- Living with the accident -- Fire -- Polaroid -- Lillian -- Short bed -- Between boulders -- Cousin Scott goes off on food stamps -- Clausen's dog -- Checking for ticks -- Lyle clears my throat -- Pride -- News -- St. Mary's memorial -- Cousin Scott on lighthouse mission -- Soft hunting -- The mark -- Northern corn -- Cutting for sign -- Butte -- Cousin Scott on his liver -- Affording the funeral -- Shoalwater -- Ms. Range wants to see me in it -- Taken in -- The low passions -- Years later, I go back to thank you -- After fighting -- To my cousin Scott with nothing -- Listening to a rail in Mandan. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=288F6E78550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search