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Instructions for my mother's funeral /

This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent move to a new house and a new life, a life in which she is always alert to the absences and danger but also a life in which she begins to see languag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Read, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.
©2012
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Pearl ; I ; The Door Flies Open ; Nocturnal ; This Time We'll Go to Kentucky Fried Chicken ; Coney Island, 1977 ; The Blue Dress with the Daisies ; We Move to a House Where He Never Lived ; The Goose Girl ; Penny Poker ; May 18, 1980 ; When She Married Him ; ""A Woman Was Raped Here"" ; Cecilia ; After the Hysterectomy ; Elegy with Carousel and Doorknob ; Cefalu ; Ars Poetica ; II ; The Deaf Girls ; Hide and Seek ; Donut Parade ; Flight ; Muddy Waters ; Mr. Birdsell, Room 108 ; Even Though I Know the Door to Our Compartment Won't Lock ; Salt of the Earth ; Wyoming ; Seatac.
  • In Paris Women Walk in the Dark July ; The Big Dipper ; Menlo ; The Flower Horses ; Paper Clothes ; Watching Oksana ; III ; Merge ; Instructions for My Mother's Funeral ; Long Distance ; You Flew across the Map ; For the Bible Tells Me So ; Something about Winning ; Community College ; 'The Little Mermaid', the Long Version ; For Matthew, Who Doesn't Love the Sea ; The House on the North Stevens ; How to Be Sad ; At the Chicago Art Institute, My Mother Tells Me to Write a Poem about Jeanette ; About a Baby ; Trying to Contact Neil Diamond ; Acknowledgments.