Original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. /
McHugh, Carey.
Armantrout, Rae,1947-
Poetry Society of America.
New York : Poetry Society of America,
c2008.
I. The farrier -- Self-portrait as shedding -- Instrument for oversight -- The glasscutter -- Original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds &c. -- The somnambulist. II. American chestnut blight -- Handsomely legacied hereafter -- Nightblooms -- Death (as a woman) comes for the draughtsman -- Angling, a catalogue -- Cannery manned by patients -- Biography in increments. III. In the afterhour -- Comes again like a costume of foxglove -- The arsonist -- Still life with canary -- Woman with her throat cut -- Spell for protecting the dead from being bitten -- The final report on birds that pose a threat to flight.