Miracle Fruit

Name: Miracle Fruit
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ISBN: 9780971031081

ISBN-10: 0971031088

ISBN-13: 9780971031081

Edition: 2003

Authors: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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As three worlds collide, a mother's Philippines, a father's India and the poet's contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise and affecting embroidery that celebrates the senses while remaining down-to-earth and genuine. "We see that everything is in fact miracle fruit, including this book itself."-Andrew Hudgins Aimee Nezhukumatathil was the Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the -Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. in poetry and -creative non-fiction from Ohio State University. She is currently an assistant…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 86
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Fishbone	p. 3
Stealing Song	p. 4
Ooty Lake	p. 5
Wrap	p. 6
Table Manners	p. 7
Peacocks	p. 8
Aanabhranbdhanmar Means 'Mad About Elephants'	p. 9
Gulabjamoon Jar	p. 10
The Rolling Saint	p. 11
Swear Words	p. 12
Hell Pig	p. 13
The Purchase	p. 14
Telling the Bees	p. 15
Falling Thirds	p. 17
Suddenly as Anything	p. 21
In Praise of Colophons	p. 22
Winter Games	p. 23
The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer	p. 24
Fruit Cocktail Tree	p. 25
In the Potatoes	p. 26
Confusions	p. 27
Lewis and Clark Disagree	p. 28
Cheese Curds, the First Time	p. 29
Why I Am Not Afraid of King Cobras	p. 30
I Come Back to Green	p. 31
The Alligator	p. 32
Crow Joy	p. 33
The Woman Who Hates Frogs	p. 34
Nest Shirt	p. 35
2[superscript 13,466,917][subscript -1]	p. 36
Canticle with Sea Worm	p. 37
Meditation on Flannel	p. 38
Making Gyotaku	p. 39
The Bonsai Master's Daughter Breaks Her Silence	p. 40
Arachne	p. 41
Little Houses	p. 42
Speak	p. 47
Cocoa Beach, Off-Season	p. 48
Lagoon	p. 49
Coco Cay	p. 51
Joseph Sees Me Painting My Thumbs Blue	p. 52
Good Blood	p. 53
The Original William	p. 54
Mr. Mustard's Dance Club: Ladies' Night	p. 55
Blue Topaz	p. 56
Small Murders	p. 57
Betelgeuse	p. 58
Eating Dust	p. 59
Mouth Stories	p. 60
Motorcycle	p. 62
Late	p. 63
What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk	p. 64
Red Ghazal	p. 65
Origin of the Milky Way	p. 66
Fabric	p. 67
Spices	p. 68
Are You Making Dumb Cake?	p. 70
Under Water, Behind Glass	p. 71
My Name	p. 73
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