The Bible of Lost Pets
Published on 15. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-84471-563-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Bible of Lost Pets is the debut collection of one of America's celebrated up-and-coming practitioners of the prose poem. Dunham artfully combines vivid, surreal imagery with a fresh, distinctive style to construct strange new parables for our modern times. The themes touched on in these poems are as wide-ranging and surprising as the fantastic cast of characters they employ. Each poem is inimitably portrayed yet somehow manages to render for the reader an insightful glimpse into the bizarre, ironic world they share: our own.
Jamey Dunham's poetry has appeared in many of the finest journals and magazines of the day and several prominent anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2005. The assortment of poems that inhabit this collection commingle and conspire to offer up a unique take on postmodern society and the world in which we live. The result is a collection that, as poet Nin Andrews writes, "establishes [Dunham] as one of the accomplished prose poets of the new century."
Jamey Dunham's poetry has appeared in many of the finest journals and magazines of the day and several prominent anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2005. The assortment of poems that inhabit this collection commingle and conspire to offer up a unique take on postmodern society and the world in which we live. The result is a collection that, as poet Nin Andrews writes, "establishes [Dunham] as one of the accomplished prose poets of the new century."
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-563-3 (9781844715633)
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Person
Jamey Dunham is a MFA graduate of Bennington College and an Associate Professor of English at Sinclair Community College, where he edits the journal Flights. His prose poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and several anthologies including Great American Prose Poems: from Poe to the Present and The Best American Poetry 2005. He Co-Edited the upcoming textbook anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem with the poet Brian Clements. Jamey lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and children.
Content
Part One
Prairie Dog Town
Go West
A Prayer for Slow-Poke Jackass
The Great Drink of Compassion
Scenes from the Field
The Lemming Parade
Wolf Tickets
In the Desert
Ed's Begonias
Stand-off in the Kitchen of the Angry Sun
Nuclear Winter
The Wolf Union
Wild Night in Urbana, Texas
Autumn Comes to Sugar Creek
Parking is Free on Weekends
Magpies and Orphans
The Widow
Family
The Holidays
Evening Hours
Dusk Falls on the Kitchen
Part Two
Trickster in the City
Trickster on Hajj
Trickster at the Writers Colony
Trickster at the Free Clinic
Trickster at the Revival
The Man Who Killed Polka
An American Story
The Last Romantic
Another Lemur, Another Story
Urban Myth
The Same Only Lower
Poem with Weasels, c. 1930s (Black and White)
The Park
Return to Your Safe Place
The Zoo
The Bible of Lost Pets
The Neighbor's Dog
The Insomniac Sleepwalking
Watching Jimmy Die
Guilt Comes to Dinner, Stays for Pie
The Confession
After the War
Part Three
Travels with Bear
Texas Takes a Holiday
Apocalypse-Boogie
Walking the Bat
A Perfect World
The Good Life
Gabby
The Shaman
Finding Jesus
At the Nunnery
A Rabbit for Helga
The Baby-Killing Factory
Blue
The Ripple Effect
Crossing the Equator
Pulling Taffy
The Deer
The Neighborhood
Inside
The Secret Lepidopterist Society
Fate Takes the Scenic Route
Laurie's House
The Man from Texarkana
Prairie Dog Town
Go West
A Prayer for Slow-Poke Jackass
The Great Drink of Compassion
Scenes from the Field
The Lemming Parade
Wolf Tickets
In the Desert
Ed's Begonias
Stand-off in the Kitchen of the Angry Sun
Nuclear Winter
The Wolf Union
Wild Night in Urbana, Texas
Autumn Comes to Sugar Creek
Parking is Free on Weekends
Magpies and Orphans
The Widow
Family
The Holidays
Evening Hours
Dusk Falls on the Kitchen
Part Two
Trickster in the City
Trickster on Hajj
Trickster at the Writers Colony
Trickster at the Free Clinic
Trickster at the Revival
The Man Who Killed Polka
An American Story
The Last Romantic
Another Lemur, Another Story
Urban Myth
The Same Only Lower
Poem with Weasels, c. 1930s (Black and White)
The Park
Return to Your Safe Place
The Zoo
The Bible of Lost Pets
The Neighbor's Dog
The Insomniac Sleepwalking
Watching Jimmy Die
Guilt Comes to Dinner, Stays for Pie
The Confession
After the War
Part Three
Travels with Bear
Texas Takes a Holiday
Apocalypse-Boogie
Walking the Bat
A Perfect World
The Good Life
Gabby
The Shaman
Finding Jesus
At the Nunnery
A Rabbit for Helga
The Baby-Killing Factory
Blue
The Ripple Effect
Crossing the Equator
Pulling Taffy
The Deer
The Neighborhood
Inside
The Secret Lepidopterist Society
Fate Takes the Scenic Route
Laurie's House
The Man from Texarkana