American spikenard /
If everyone decided to call themselves a girl / that word would stop." In this award-winning volume of authoritative and assertive poems, Sarah Vap embarks on an emotional journey to the land of America's female children. Questioning, contradicting, radically and restlessly demanding accep...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Iowa poetry prize.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Testify; Second Daughter; Stallions eat flowers; Winter Necromancer; Star Light; Teaching you; brothers, sisters -; Sauna Morning; What position you're in if you're looking at the sole of a heel.; Being a Great Believer in Cooling; What I remember of it now.; Urging caution, and suchlike; Kunsthistorisches Museum; Little Clouds on Teeth; Little girls and horses; Blue-Eyed Horse; Teacup; The disappearing movement; Just look:; A platform; Something of an award; Take them in and throw them back up.; Please come; A riddle for my birthday; I am surprised, that means
- Mexican BlanketEase; Breastfeeding across America; Tweeting the Midnight Line; The Emergency Chair; For Romell, the boy with the hair between his teeth; Cold red tiles. Red-hot bath.; Horses Remember How; Heartbreakingly small when you sleep; No one knows the honest end or beginning; I can barely lift you; The Pink House; Push-off Sideways; The Path of Birds; A Window the Size of a Granny's Forehead; How secret and good you are -; Men from the women; Originally, the earth was loving-water; Iris enjoys the secret; Are you expressing a desire to know me?; Lesson Plan; Oh come on now.
- Pressure-RidgesChakra; You help your cat " face its fear"; Festivals; Speech of my lost twin; Tiger, my Birthday; The Love Story of Monkey and Bear: Aerial Map; My attention; Mark Time; Night Bath, Sagittarius; The Cow Can't Fear Something Eternal; The Silting-Up