TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burke,Michelle Y.
TI  - Animal purpose: poems 
T2  - The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
SN  - 9780821445488
AV  - PS3602 .A556 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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