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""In every poem, she keeps her fury contained, but omnipresent, so that it resembles a cornered dog's warning growl, yet she hints of happier possibilities.""--Booklist""Beatty does offer deeply visceral and sensory work, especially in the second and third sections...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beatty, Jan, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1995.
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • I
  • If This Is Sex, It Must Be Tuesday
  • Mad River
  • Grabbing at Beauty
  • What We Can Count On
  • The Rolling Rock Man
  • Pittsburgh Poem
  • The Order of Things
  • 1,200 lb. Man Starts on Road to 190 lbs.
  • Fifteen Minutes at the Dairy Mart
  • Ravenous Blue
  • Leonard Avenue
  • II
  • Highway 99
  • Getting Through
  • Letter to Mario
  • As If That's All There Is
  • Awake in a Strange Landscape
  • An Abortion Attempt by my Mother
  • Morning Radio
  • fifteen
  • Ferry at Night
  • Watching My Father
  • Fog
  • Dream with No WordsSucking
  • Self-Hatred
  • Walking in Shade
  • Wanting to Continue
  • III
  • Saving the Crippled Boy
  • What I Want
  • Introducing You to My Dead Father
  • Breaking the Skin
  • after sex on a train
  • Love Poem
  • Visiting My Father a Few Days Before His Operation
  • Ghost Orchid
  • The Space That Remains
  • A Waitress' Instructions on Tipping orGet the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time
  • T-shirts
  • Standing by the McKenzie River at Night
  • Blue Dress
  • Not Thinking About Gardenias
  • Asking the Dead for Help
  • The Flower GardenOne Hand on the Door
  • Free World
  • Acknowledgments