Winter's cricket: poems

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Lyons, Greg Woodrow
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Abstract
"Winter's Cricket is a collection of poems spawned from the memories of my childhood and my fascination, then and now, with bugs. Many of the poems deal with a boy growing up in the Suburban landscape and connecting himself through imagination to the insects around him. This combination often leads itself in the writing to violent ends for either the boy or the bugs; however, this collection seeks to undermine through the inclusion of the cabin poems, among other things, the notion that violence is always and necessarily bad, when oftentimes violence can lead to knowledge, understanding, and love"--Leaf iii
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Thesis (M.F.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010
Table of Contents
Section I. Self-portrait behind glass -- Chorus -- Says the spider -- Friends and bugs -- Elevator -- Flies -- Abracadabra -- Home in the woods -- Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home -- Slop bucket -- Section II. Moose -- My mantis and me -- Like locusts returning -- Perspective -- Hymenopterans -- Frost -- Rush hour -- Worm -- A dog named chicken -- Western field guide to first aid using the Marabunta -- Mosey -- Crickets -- Moth -- Section III. Uncle -- Leeches -- Says the mosquito -- Mealworms -- Secrets -- June bug -- Recipe -- Another kind of crustacean -- Mantis -- Lady -- Don't touch -- Diapause -- Section IV. Has an ant ever hitchhiked on an airplane? -- Artifact -- Some ways to entertain bottles -- One seventh of a gram -- Honey -- Tequila lollipop -- Fuck bees -- Confession -- Arachnophobia -- Says the ant -- I wear pajama pants in the cabin -- Wanting back what never was -- Fireflies -- Alaska -- Tourist.
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2010-05
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