At The Drive-In Volcano

At The Drive-In Volcano

by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
At The Drive-In Volcano

At The Drive-In Volcano

by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Overview

From the author of the award-winning book of poems, Miracle Fruit, comes the eagerly anticipated second collection, At the Drive-In Volcano. In this new and imaginative followup, Aimee Nezhukumatathil examines the full circle journey of desire, loss, and ultimately, an exuberant lovetraveling around a world brimming with wild and delicious offerings such as iced waterfalls, jackfruit, and pistol shrimp. From the tropical landscapes of the Caribbean, India, and the Philippines to the deep winters of western New York and mild autumns of Ohio, the natural world Nezhukumatathil describes is dark but also lovelyso full of enchantment and magic. Here, worms glow in the dark, lizards speak, the most delicious soup in the world turns out to be deadly, and a woman eats soil as if it were candy. Her trademark charm, verve and wit remain elemental and a delight to behold, even in the face of a crumbling relationship. These poems confront delicate subjects of love and loss with an exacting exuberance and elegance not hardly seen in a writer so young.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781932195453
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication date: 03/30/2007
Edition description: Reprint ed.
Pages: 85
Sales rank: 437,450
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Aimee Nezhukumatathil 's previous book of poetry, Miracle Fruit (2003), won the the Tupelo Press Prize, the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in poetry, and the Global Filipino Award. Her poetry and essays have been widely anthologized and have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, FIELD, Mid-American Review, and Tin House. She has been a faculty member at the Kundiman retreat for Asian-American writers and has given readings and workshops from Amsterdam to San Francisco. She is associate professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia, where she is a recipient of the campus-wide Hagan Young Scholar Award and the SUNY Chancellor's Medal for Scholarly and Creative Activities.

Table of Contents

Contents

ONE
fin of molten rock waves at the sky

3/ When Weaver Ants Cut (A Valentine)
4/ Fugu Soup Blues
5/ Invention of the Monsters
6/ By the Light of a Single Worm
7/ After Challenging Jennifer Lee to a Fight
9/ Marie Laveau, Queen of Voodoo
10/ First Fool
11/ Bloodflower
12/ In Praise of Ice Cream Vending machines at a Greyhound Bus Station
13/ The Problem with Skin

TWO
came spiders tiptoe across the ash

17/ Passenger Pigeon Cloud
18/ Take the Moly Flower
19/ Passion Play
20/ Touchpool
21/ Dog Custody
22/ Candy Necklace
24/ If You Take the Fins Off a Shark
25/ At Medusa’s Hair Salon
27/ After the Auction, I Bid You Good-Bye
28/ This is the Last Hotel
29/ When All of My Cousins are Married
30/ “Yes, We Have No Bananas”
31/ Sugar Pains Me
32/ I am Not the Hand
33/ Last Aerogramme to You, with Lizard

THREE
scallops watch pillow lava form underwater

37/ Devil’s Tongue
38/ The Carcass of Beef
39/ Oriental
40/ When the Mother of the Greedy Boy Has Enough
41/ Cocoa Dance
42/ Dali’s Fear of Grasshoppers
43/ Never Sugar, Never Soil
44/ How the Robin’s Breast Became Red
45/ Bee Wolf
46/ The Woman Who Eats Soil

FOUR
nuggets of wet lapilli collect under a pine tree and no one hears

49/ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
51/ High School Picture Re-Take Day
52/ Planaria
53/ When the Great Teacher Dies
54/ World of the Ice Giants
55/ Might as Well Be Queen of Something
56/ Origin of the Mango
58/ What the Mosquito Gives
59/ River Phoenix
60 / Summer of No Smiles

FIVE
ovenbirds, bulgy with seed, fly past the blast

65/ Love in the Orangery
66/ The Cockfighter’s Daughter Falls in Love
67/ Niagara Falls at Night
68/ For Luck: A Seven Day guide
70/ Flashlight Fish
71/ Soap
73/ At the Drive-In Volcano
74/ The Green Flash
75/ When Mountains Fang the Sky
76/ The Traveling Lizard
77/ Why I Crave Ribs Tonight
78/ First Anniversary with Monkeys

80/ Notes
81/ Acknowledgments
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