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What flies want : poems /

"In What Flies Want, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members' mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills, #MeToo, and increasing political polarization, the collection asks how these priva...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pérez, Emily (Poet) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
Colección:Iowa poetry prize.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • *
  • My Son Is
  • My Children Use the American Flag
  • Before I Learned to Be a Girl
  • Battle Song
  • Nightwatch
  • Outbound Flight
  • Anniversary
  • Your Mood
  • I Want These Problems to Stay Quiet Problems
  • My Next Book Is Called
  • My Son Is
  • Accoutrements
  • On This Day
  • Today I Wonder What If No One Finds Her
  • Dinner Conversation
  • Deciding to Renew Our Vows
  • The Door / Locked
  • Aftermath
  • What Flies Want Is Not
  • *
  • How I Learned to Be a Girl
  • Primer
  • You Mattered to Me
  • I Grew Up at the Feet of Unpredictable
  • Yes, All Women
  • How I Learned to [ ]
  • I Have No Right to Speak Because
  • Dear Whiteness,
  • Corrección / Correction
  • Song for My Daughter
  • Out of the Wood-
  • Pardon Me, Yes Please, No Thank You
  • Accounting
  • Please, Whiteness,
  • Prayer for My White Son
  • At the Hotel Pool
  • *
  • Once I Learned to Be a Girl
  • Rose Moon
  • When You Balance
  • When He Comes
  • Lockdown, 1st Grade
  • My Son Is
  • I Wanted a Full Dose of Never-Mind of Not-Ever-
  • Today's Arc
  • Boding
  • Hindsight: Part III
  • You Have All Day
  • After Watching the Vampire Movie
  • Every Man's a Ticking Bomb
  • Vows
  • When You Slipped into the Lake
  • Ten Years Later My Husband Walks Out of the Woods
  • Stolen Things: Part III
  • Second-Grade Drop-Off
  • Darling, I Would Never // That I'd Ever Want
  • My Son Is
  • Underground /
  • Tonight When They Try On My Bra
  • I Have Plenty