A country of strangers : new and selected poems / D. Nurkse.

"The selected poems of an essential American poet, who has cast a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories over eleven books and thirty-five years. D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nurkse, D., 1949- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > 21st century.
American poetry.
2000-2099
Poetry.
Poésie.
Genre:
Poetry.
Poésie.
Physical Description:xiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: A Country of Strangers: New Poems
  • Order to Disperse
  • The Detentions
  • In the City of Statues
  • In the Winter of Painted Swastikas
  • The Polls
  • The Screen
  • Marbles and a Dead Bee
  • Caligula
  • The White Prisons
  • Conversation Behind the White Curtain
  • The Arrow Creek Fire
  • Showers
  • The Commands
  • The Body
  • Marriage in the Mountains
  • Ischia
  • Early Morning, Late Summer, Unmade Bed
  • Money
  • This Life
  • Game with a Mad Bounce
  • Flora of the Boreal Forest
  • Evening in the Pines
  • A Clearing on Ruth Island
  • The Unendurable Tests
  • The Fire
  • A Lullaby
  • The Chime
  • A Country of Strangers
  • Not Yet America
  • Staggered Lights
  • Small Countries
  • Grandmother's Exile
  • The Settlement
  • Time
  • Starting Again in the Orchard Country
  • The Windfall Mountains
  • Order
  • Paradise
  • The Engagement in the Plains
  • Repairs
  • Barrier Islands
  • Walking on the Highway
  • Lamps and Fences
  • Shadow Wars
  • The Physical
  • Spring Formal
  • Resistance
  • The Roof of the Handbag Factory
  • A Vagrant
  • G.E. Nonviolent Action
  • The Turn
  • The Unborn
  • The Second Stroke
  • The Visitors
  • The Ancient War
  • Indian Summer
  • Ten Seconds
  • Isolation in Action
  • The Old Country
  • Tartu 1939
  • Privates
  • The Demotion
  • The Siege in the Forest
  • In the Winter Capital
  • Voices over Water
  • Saaremaa
  • Factions
  • Slow Summer
  • The Marriage to War
  • The Occupation
  • The Hidden Fighters
  • Expulsion
  • The New World
  • Alberta
  • No Harvest
  • A Year of Hunger
  • The Market Holds
  • The Shy One
  • The Last Preparation
  • Surviving Partner
  • Cold Brahms
  • Mistakes
  • Extinction
  • Arrival in the City
  • Inventing Nations
  • Leaving Xaia
  • The Car Bomb
  • These Are Your Rights
  • A Pause at Delta Assembly
  • A Block North of Mercy
  • The Last Husband
  • Final Settlement
  • The Swiftness with Which Those Cities Fell
  • The Guards
  • A Night in Toluna
  • The United States Embassy in Salvador
  • The Background Chords Return in Minor
  • The Checkpoints
  • The Rules of Paradise
  • Olmos
  • Childhood and the Great Cities
  • Childhood and the Last War
  • The Book of Loneliness
  • The Next World
  • My Father at Prades
  • We Believed in the End of the World
  • Scattering the March
  • The Portrait
  • The Birth Room
  • Only Child
  • Rendezvous in Providence
  • First Grade Homework
  • The Last Border
  • The Bond
  • The Fall
  • Initials
  • Left Field
  • The Hellmann's Jar
  • Paradise
  • Under the Porch
  • At the Stage of Riddles
  • An Opening in the Largest City
  • The Stone House at Black River
  • A Couple in Garden City
  • Custody Wars
  • The Tower Overlooking the City
  • The Book of Splendor
  • At Mary Magdalene
  • Back Wards
  • At Holy Name
  • How We Are Made Light
  • Side Effects of Colirium
  • A Night at Mount Sinai
  • The Parasite
  • Leaving Mary Magdalene
  • Burnt Island
  • Ruth
  • The Reunification Center
  • Searchers
  • A Walk in Giovanna's Park
  • Home
  • A Hike to Little Falls
  • The Marriage in Canaan
  • Space Marriage
  • Origins of Desire
  • Diaspore
  • Hymenoptera: The Ants
  • Six Red Spiders in the Elm at High Falls
  • Separation at Burnt Island
  • Brittle Star
  • The Granite Coast
  • The Border Kingdom
  • Ben Adan
  • In the Hold
  • Exile's Child
  • The Prize
  • The Anti-Death
  • Sacrifice
  • August Snow
  • Canaan
  • Lament for the Makers of Brooklyn
  • Rosal
  • The Shelter
  • Autopoiesis
  • Late Summer
  • Picnic by the Inland Sea
  • Parousia
  • After a Bombing
  • The Missing
  • A Child in Brooklyn
  • Love in the Last Days
  • The Grail
  • Assignations
  • The King's Chamber
  • The Horse
  • Everyone in This Story Speaks Except Me
  • The Living Spring
  • Ceol Sidhe
  • The Self
  • The Other World
  • The Dog
  • Her Decision
  • An Opening
  • The Grail
  • Armorica
  • Queen of the Land of No Sleep
  • The Adventure of Tristan and Iseult
  • The King's Prison
  • A Night in Brooklyn
  • Waking in Greenpoint in Late August
  • Making Shelves
  • Red Antares in a Blue Mirror
  • The Dead Remember Brooklyn
  • The Bars
  • Sonny Stitt at the Blue Coronet
  • The North Side
  • Letter from Home
  • The Trapper Keeper
  • The Living Will
  • Freedom and Chance
  • A Night in Brooklyn
  • The Present
  • Damariscotta
  • The Simulacra
  • Andalusian Capias & Song Fragments
  • Five Spanish Riddles
  • A Night in Caceres
  • There Is No Time, She Writes
  • The Power Point
  • Psalm to Be Read with Closed Eyes.