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A bedroom of searchlights : poems /
The poems in this collection explore the life of the poet's mother who divorced in 1939, at a time when a woman divorcing was still frowned upon by society. This collection draws a picture of the artist and single mother who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet stil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, ON :
Inanna Publications,
2016.
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| Colección: | Inanna poetry & fiction series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Also By; Dedication; Contents; Meeting Today; From East to West; I Know She; Her Sketch-Book; Pages and Pages; Across the World; The Dog; Fidelity; Background of Flowers; Wartime Parent; To Find; Divorced; Forgetting; Birth-Home; Knots; Loss; Raising Children; Embroidery; Embarrassed; Vanilla; Relatives; The Storyteller; Her Bas-relief Silver Belt Buckle; For Guests; Weekly; Every Summer; Keeping; Necessities; Pencil Sketches; The Spinet; For the Present; By the Fire; An Old Dress; Ever-Present; Eccentric; Interruption; Child on the Chair; Rainbows
- A Curious DomesticityGhosts in the House; Art Exhibition; Her Garden; Summer and Winter; The Loneliness; The Person on the End; The Lady Who Sat for Her Portrait; Freezing Time; In Colour; Turning Inward; Lament; Waiting for the Flight; Woman Behind Glass; Buried Secrets; In An After-Life; Thread of Motherhood; Ledgers; Two Ghosts; Funeral for Three; Unmatched Colours; The Last Painting; Legacy; An Old Photo; Under a Yew; Mother Is My Age; Disappeared; The Last Wave; Acknowledgements