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Eldest Daughter : Poems /
The author combines the sensory and the spiritual in verbal fireworks. Concrete descriptions of a woman's life in the mid-twentieth-century American South mix with wider concerns about family lies and truths, and a culture that supports or forbids clear speech.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preacher's Daughter. In Gratitude for a Southern Baptist Upbringing ; "Louie's: Home of the Veggie Omelet" ; Eva/Ave at the National Gallery ; In Which I Forgive My Mother Her Intentions ; Preacher's Daughter ; Contralto Recitative with Angel Chorus ; The Holy Ghost Develops Binge/Purge Syndrome ; The Holy Ghost Attends Vacation Bible School ; The Holy Ghost Tries Out for Little League ; The Holy Ghost Moves to Kilgore ; Church Schism : Every Body's Got to Be Some Place ; Four-Year-Old Invents a New Curse Word ; The Holy Ghost Designs the Perfect Woman
- Why the Groundhog Fears Her Shadow. Changing Weather Patterns ; Shining ; The Center Cannot ; She Begins with the Sky ; The Child Born ; The Dream Runs On ; Color of the Moon ; The Heads of Old Dolls ; Groundhog's Prayer of Petition ; Why the Groundhog Fears Her Shadow ; How Two Became One Again : Sestinas' Work Done ; Winter's End ; Staying at the Willard ; Parish Courthouse, Cameron ; Woman in the Middle
- The Castle of Either/Or : a fairy tale. The Castle of Either/Or
- Daughter's Fealty. Continental Divide ; Steam Calliope ; Bass Fishing with a Hulapopper ; Roundball ; "My Father Will Have Two Dozen on the Halfshell."