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Figure Studies : Poems /

Poet Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called ""All Girls School, "" offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls. Whether focused on a lesson, a teacher, or the girls themselves as they collectively "&quo...

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Autor principal: Emerson, Claudia, 1957-2014
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Mannequin above Main Street Motors; I. ALL GIRLS SCHOOL; The Physical Plant; Headmaster; Housemother; Anatomical Model; The Girls Dissect the Eye of a Cow; Latin Teacher; Beginning Sculpture: The Subtractive Method; Warmbloods; What They Are Missing; Living Nativity; Organist; Communion Sunday Buffet; The Well: Egg and Tongue; Upper Arcade; Biology Lesson; Orchid Anatomy; Influenza; Practice Rooms; Physical Education; Synchronized Swimming; Environmental Awareness: The Right Whale; History Lesson; Esto Absoluta; Fire Drill; Reunion Weekend; II. GOSSIPS.
  • Funny ValentineAnorexic, Farmers' Market; Old Proof; What They Want; III. EARLY LESSONS; The Polio Vaccine, Chatham, Virginia, 1964; Cat Lady; Piano Fire; Elevator Operator, Danville, Virginia, 1964; Finger of Mercury; IV.; Triptych; After the Affair; Studio; The Garden; Sewing Bird; Photographer; At the Route One Flea Market; Womanless Beauty Pageant at the Volunteer Fire Department; Maintenance; Spring Ice Storm; Great Depression Story; The Medical Venus.