The tornado is the world
By: Catherine Pierce
Publisher: Saturnalia
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9780996220668
Subjects: Tornadoes; Poetry
Work titles: Poems
Table of contents: title: 1. Disaster work; title: On the worst day of the fever; title: In which I am famous; title: Imaginary vacation scenario #1; title: What the hour before the tornado feels like; title: Heroines; title: Beach town; title: I used to be able to listen to sad songs; title: Lesson; title: Imaginary vacation scenario #2; title: "Rare winter tornadoes sweep through the South"; title: The unabashed tourist brings her lover to the French Quarter; title: The unabashed tourist talks with a skee-ball proprietor in Ocean City, MD; title: The unabashed tourist meets a man at a bar outside Reno; title: The unabashed tourist chats with diner patrons in Tennessee; title: While waiting out a tornado warning; title: 2. The tornado is sick of this life as a novelty; title: The tornado knows itself; title: The tornado collects the animals; title: The tornado visits the town; title: The mother warns the tornado; title: Holy shit; title: The dog greets the tornado; title: The tornado; title: The teenager watches the tornado in her rearview; title: On the origins of the tornado; title: The mother hears the tornado sirens stop; title: The aftermath; title: The checkout clerk considers leaving; title: The aftermath (2); title: What the tornado hears all the time; title: The mother, three months later; title: The town dreams the tornado apologizes; title: Where the tornado will go next; title: 3. Ocean block; title: An apologia for taking things for granted; title: Imaginary vacation scenario #3; title: I will outrun my own linearity; title: Horseshoe crab; title: Alongside; title: Alleys; title: Relevant details; title: Imaginary vacation scenario #4; title: Get out; title: True story; title: The hawk.