Circassian Girl

by Mitchell-foust, Michelle

• ISBN13: 9780970934222
• ISBN10: 097093422X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. CIRCASSIAN GIRL by Michele Mitchell-Foust is one of the winners of the Elixir Press Inaugural Poetry Awards. "This is a book abounding in evocation's (often subtle and indiscreet, yet always energetic), of museums, galleries, stages--all such bounded areas within which events are given leave to be. These poems are an exhilarating set of dynamism's"--Bin Ramke. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Denver Quarterly, The Nation, and Colorado Review. She lives in California.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Hotel Elefant	p. 3
Fire Loves the Circus	p. 5
Ghost Story	p. 7
Quidam, Kafka's Early Childhood	p. 8
The First Dream of the Body	p. 9
Handbalancing, A Demonstration of Faith Before the Year 2000	p. 13
Wide Justice, or Eurydice the Juggler	p. 15
Medicine Dance	p. 16
Salon with Stage Directions	p. 17
Serpent a Sonnette (Rattlesnake)	p. 18
Wronski and Marciniate, The Ecology of the Eye	p. 19
The Marriage Bed of Chang and Eng for Eng's Wife, Sarah	p. 23
Revival	p. 37
After the Flood	p. 38
Special Effect	p. 39
Another Flood Stage	p. 40
The Water Cure	p. 41
Tough Love: The Stages of Excitement	p. 45
Room for Madalena Delani	p. 46
Belles Lettres	p. 47
Lavinia's Sonnet	p. 54
The New Circus Working Act	p. 57
Second Song for a Palmist	p. 58
The Dope Show, 1974	p. 59
Negative Capability, or The Geek	p. 62
From Hell, Mister Lusk	p. 64
Sisyphus Coming from the Sea	p. 66
Washington Park	p. 68
Notes	p. 71
To the Egress, Apostrophe	p. 75
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