Miracle Fruit / Edition 1

Miracle Fruit / Edition 1

by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
ISBN-10:
0971031088
ISBN-13:
9780971031081
Pub. Date:
03/28/2003
Publisher:
Tupelo Press
ISBN-10:
0971031088
ISBN-13:
9780971031081
Pub. Date:
03/28/2003
Publisher:
Tupelo Press
Miracle Fruit / Edition 1

Miracle Fruit / Edition 1

by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Overview

Poetry. As three worlds collide, a mother's Philippines, a father's India and the poet's contemporary America, the resulting impressions are chronicled in this collection of incisive and penetrating verse. The writer weaves her words carefully into a wise and affecting embroidery that celebrates the senses while remaining down-to-earth and genuine. "We see that everything is in fact miracle fruit, including this book itself"-Andrew Hudgins.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780971031081
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication date: 03/28/2003
Edition description: First Paperback Edition
Pages: 86
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 9.14(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Aimee Nezhukumatathil's 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 Bite

I Slice

Fishbone 1
Stealing Song 4
Ooty Lake 5
Wrap 6
Table Manners 7
Peacocks 8
Aanabhrandhanmar Means 'Mad About Elephants* 9
Gulabjamoon Jar 10
The Rolling Saint 11
Swear Words 12
Hell Pig 13
The Purchase 14
Telling the Bees 15
Falling Thirds 17

II Juice

Suddenly as Anything 21
In Praise of Colophons 22
Winter Games 23
The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer 24
Fruit Cocktail Tree 25
In the Potatoes 26
Contusions 27
Lewis and Clark Disagree 28
Cheese Curds, the First Time Why I Am Not Afraid of King Cobras 30
1 Come Back to Green 31
The Alligator 32
Crow Joy 33
The Woman Who Hates Frogs 34
Nest Shirt 35
213.466,917-1 36
Canticle with Sea Worm 37
Meditation on Flannel 38
Making Gyotaku 39
The Bonsai Master's Daughter Breaks Her Silence 40
Arachne 41
Little Houses 42

Ill Flesh

Speak 47
Cocoa Beach, Off-Season 48
Lagoon 49
Coco Cay 51
Joseph Sees Me Painting My Thumbs Blue 52
Good Blood 53
The Original William 54
Mr. Mustard's Dance Club: Ladies' Night 55
Blue Topaz 56
Small Murders 57
Betelgeuse 58
Eating Dust 59
Mouth Stories 60
Motorcycle 62
Late 63
What I Learned from The Incredible Hulk 64
Red Ghazal 65
Origin of the Milky Way 66
Fabric 67
Spices 68
Are You Making Dumb Cake? 70
Under Water, Behind Glass 71
My Name 73

Acknowledgments 74

What People are Saying About This

Alice Fulton

Aimee Nezhukumatathil's delightful poems celebrate the glories of the tongue, in both senses of the word. I can think of no other poet - except Neruda - who has inscribed the sensual world with such accurate charm. ...Aimee Nezhukumatathil understands the loving and funny relations between mother and daughter. She understands the folkways of India and Ohio, and she might be the only American poet who can swear in Tagalog. Her poems are seriously delicious: toothsome and saucy, wise and mischievous.

Andrew Hudgins

In these fine and searching poems, Nezhukumatathil pushes and grabs at the world, wanting more and striving to name what cannot be named. As she does we see that everything is in fact miracle fruit, including this book itself.

Billy Collins

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is able to handle serious subjects with the lightest of touches. Her edgy humor and keen eye keep her poems buoyant and fresh.
U.S. Poet Laureate

Gregory Orr

When language, sensory experience, and imagination meet and mingle in an inventive and convincing way, we have the ingredients for those moments of grace that characterize important poems. Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Miracle Fruit is rich in such luscious moments. Every line is alive with the excitement of what can be known about the world, every poem bursting with an eagerness to share it.
Judge, Second Annual Tupelo Press Poetry Competition

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