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Threshold /
Jennifer Richter presents a series of poems that explore the many facets of the term ""threshold."" Throughout the collection, the narrator experiences several acts of threshing, or separating-from birth and the small yet profound distances that part a mother and child, to the se...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1; Threshold:; Magic Word; Spring, and It Starts to Snow; Ask Yourself Whether You Are Having Children to Be Loved, or to Love; You Are Time to Wake Up; Today Is a Capital M; Recovery; 2; Fairy Tale: The Doctor; Putting the Baby to Sleep: Nine Tries; Recovery 2: Turn Away Your Eyes and It'll Fly; 3; Persephone Returns; Everywhere the Earth Is Opening; After the Mud Bath; Laying on Hands; Annunciation; Name One Thing You Love; Recovery 3; 4; Kept from Her; For Chloe, Whose Name Means "Profusion of Blooms"; In the Air.
- The Fifth ElementFirst Words; Ode to the Bones; Prayer for the Hanoi Man Who Waits for Breakdowns on His Block; Recovery 4; 5; The Damp Grass Catches You Wherever You Lie Down; Some Run; What Is My Body Without You?; They Name Each Other Jesus; Set a Place at Your Table for Grief; To Gather Back the Body; Recovery 5: Now What Do You Do?; 6; You Were Born to Be Mine, See, Why Even Fight It; Relapse; Click; She Asks about Death, Then Draws; Brought to Life; The Day You Choose; "Give us the baby, give us the baby, throw us the baby"; Recovery 6: The Last Word; Notes.