Title: The next country /
Authors: Novey, Idra; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Alice James Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: Presents poems that explore the idea of "country," covering the topics of marriage and family, travel and history, and the relationship between self and the world.
Contents: East of here -- Customs -- Stranger -- Scenes from moving vehicles, I -- The wailers in Estadio Nacional -- A history in six couplets -- For my sister, driving away -- About a road -- The experiment -- Property -- Trans -- Postcard of two birds, scattered feathers -- Into the atacama -- Pausing outside a house -- The bartering -- Tikal -- Second snow -- The dry lands -- The candidate -- Scenes from moving vehicles, II -- From the small book of returns -- A maça no oscuro -- Seated nude X -- Two women in a barn -- A short chronology of arson -- Scenes from moving vehicles, III -- Maddox road -- Slow train -- Nocturne with waking bear -- Scenes from moving vehicles, IV -- The future -- At some point after we sealed the windows -- The end of Augusto -- Landscape with irony -- Painted gourd hung from an open gate -- About a field -- Highway town -- To Byzantium, by train.