Hold like owls : poems / Julia Koets ; foreword by Nikky Finney.

"Published in Cooperation with the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, University of South Carolina."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I; Paper Birds; Woman Drawn with Stars; Shrug of Broken Egg, Frozen Shell; Fruit in Bed; White on the Fence; Apples and Aristophanes; Blue Hour; The Sweet of Strawberries; When loss leans like a broken tree; Gift to a Girl in Phoenix; Above the Floor; Bruise; Wanderings; Wide-Eyed and Song; II; Gentle Corners of the Night; About Boats; Beauty Secrets; Lantern Bloom; Boxes of Old Photographs; Possums; Parking Lot Market; Oconee Bells; Curve of the Belly; Moth and Moon; A History of Hair; Sun would catch; III; Calico Street.

After It's OverFor Julia in Little Armenia; Octave; Early Psalm; Buttered Toast; Plaster Dust; Hold Like Owls; Even Haystacks; One Afternoon; My Quixote; Losing Noon; When It Starts to Rain in San Francisco; IV; As Far as March; Hidden There; Joy, the Elephant, Greenville Zoo, 1990; Counting Pelicans; Encounters with Buzzards; December Hemlock; Blue House on Wheat Street; Larks at Dawn; Kume and the Washerwoman; i. Fallen; ii. Worn Too Thin; Painting on Silk; Ruin.

A collection of poems exploring memories and identity forged in the American South.

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