Research Catalog

Title

Walking safari or the hippo highway and other poems / Noel Polk.

Author

Polk, Noel.

Publication

Huntsville, Tex. : Texas Review Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

98 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Safaris > Zambia > Poetry
• Race relations > Poetry
• Zambia > Poetry
• Mississippi > Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prome -- Pomespeak -- HIV hospital, Lusaka -- Walking safari -- Warthog: sooey generis -- Hyena I: king of the jungle -- Hyena II: king of beasts -- Spitting cobras -- Snake in the bed: a virginal -- Cat eyes -- Big cats -- A croc -- A compleat croc -- Giraffe ruminant: what they chew on -- Thirteen ways of looking at a hippopotamus -- Old possum's hippopotamus -- Hippo highways -- Reading dung -- :oscopy -- Compound Lusaka: pictures at an inhibition -- Undertow -- I make love to a fat woman, ca. 1960 -- Many men would not have chosen beauty -- I sonned a father -- My mother's roses -- Running the hypotenuse -- To Jennifer at seven, after her dance recital -- To Scott at five, calling in the night -- Girl on the Ocracoke ferry -- I saw her leaning -- Birth defects -- The old man who loves his wife -- Lady of Pompeii -- At night, in a dry storm driving -- Wreck -- An armadillo -- To the Surgeon General -- John Boy redux -- The function of the line -- The runner knows -- X-ray -- The preacher tries to make sense -- The old man listens to the wind, the spirit of departed friends -- Requiem -- L'envoi.

ISBN

• 9781933896748 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1933896744 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011023203

OCLC

730906324

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library