Burke, Michelle Y. <br/><br/>
Animal purpose :  poems / 
Michelle Y. Burke. 
 - Athens, Ohio :  Ohio University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Acknowledgments; Contents; One; Today the Horse; Not by Extraordinary Means; First Engagement; Dear One; Flight Path; A Life; Horses in Brooklyn; Pacifisms; Two; On the Prospect of Heaven; Inchworm; Sweet Girl; Saints and Martyrs; Lives of the Artists; Home Economics; Flood Zone; Here; Three; Homing; Four; Puff; Dante Park; Narcissus; Ghost Horse; This Neighborhood; Driving Alone; Upon Giving My Grandmother's Chair to My Brother; Trick of the Light; Zalar's Carousel Horses; Five; Market Day; Nocturne; Last Light; Diameter; Intensity as Violist; Farmer's Daughter; Wishing Stones; Notes 
<br/><br/> In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper way to slaughter a truckload of chickens. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821445488 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American poetry--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3602  / .A556 2016