All-American girl /

Winner of the 1996 Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry. "With poignancy, honesty, and grace, Becker contends with the messy implications of her lesbian sexuality, Jewish identity, and sister's suicide. ... Becker is acutely aware of, and devastated by, her many losses, but emerges defiant...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Becker, Robin, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1996]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
Subjects:
Lesbians > Poetry.
Gays > Poetry.
Lesbiennes > Poésie.
Homosexuels > Poésie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
Gays
Lesbians
Poetry
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Shopping
  • The Crypto-Jews
  • My Grandmother's Crystal Ball
  • The Mystery, Then the Facts
  • Santo Domingo Feast Day
  • The Elimination of First Thoughts
  • A History of Sexual Preference
  • The Star Show
  • Solar
  • Brisk Autumn and the Querulous Trees
  • We Thought of Each Other as Food
  • Port-au-Prince, 1960
  • Quaker Meeting, the Sixties
  • Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom
  • In Pietrasanta
  • Haircut on Via di Mezzo
  • Family Romance
  • Peter Pan in North America
  • Spiritual Morning
  • Opals
  • Too Jewish
  • Telling Them Apart
  • Risk
  • Contradancing in Nelson, N.H.
  • The Woman Question
  • When Someone Dies Young
  • Bicycle Days
  • The Ribbon
  • Hold Back
  • Midnight Swim
  • Dreaming at the Rexall Drug
  • Meeting the Gaze of the Great Horned Owl
  • From Taos to Santa Fe
  • The New Year
  • Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico
  • Kindness
  • Death of the Owl
  • The Roast Chicken.

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