Plume : poems

Plume : poems /

"The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the 'empty' desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where 'every father I knew dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flenniken, Kathleen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]
Series:Pacific Northwest poetry series.
Subjects:
Nuclear energy > Poetry.
Nuclear facilities > Washington (State) > Hanford > Poetry.
FICTION > General.
HISTORY > Military > Nuclear Warfare.
Nuclear energy
Nuclear facilities
Washington (State) > Hanford
Poetry
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Campaign Q & A, somewhere in Oregon, May 18, 2008
  • My earliest memory preserved on film
  • Rattlesnake Mountain
  • Map of childhood
  • A great physicist recalls the Manhattan Project
  • Bedroom community
  • Document control
  • Mosquito truck
  • Herb Parker feels like dancing
  • Richland dock, 2006
  • Days of clotheslines
  • Whole-body counter, Marcus Whitman Elementary
  • Plume
  • To Carolyn's father
  • Afternoon's wide horizon
  • Redaction I
  • Green run
  • Bird's eye view
  • Richland dock, 1956
  • On Cottonwood Drive
  • Self-portrait with Father as tour guide
  • Interlude for dancers
  • Redaction II
  • Augean suite
  • Siren recognition
  • Hand and foot count
  • Atomic man
  • Radiation!
  • The value of good design
  • Again I'm asked if I glow in the dark
  • The Cold War
  • Going down
  • Reading wells
  • Redaction III
  • Deposition
  • Song of the secretary, hot lab
  • Flow chart
  • Coyote
  • Museum of doubt
  • Dinner with Carolyn
  • Portrait of my father
  • Museum of a lost America
  • If you can read this.
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the poet
  • A note on the type.

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