| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
88 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Poems on love and the family. In The Planned Child, she writes: "I hated the fact that they planned me ... made a chart of the month and put / her temperature on it, rising and falling, / to know the day to make me--I would have / liked to have been conceived in heat, / in haste, by mistake, in love, in sex, / not on cardboard, the little x on the / rising line that did not fall again." |
| Contents |
Visiting My Mother's College -- My Parents' Wedding Night, 1937 -- The Planned Child -- Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942 -- Earliest Memory -- My First Weeks -- For My Mother -- The Lisp -- Christian Child -- Killing My Sister's Fish -- The Swimming Race -- Parents' Day -- Dirty Memories -- Mrs. Krikorian -- Necking -- First -- Adolescence -- Early Images of Heaven -- Celibacy at Twenty -- The Source -- Making Love -- I Love It When -- The Dragons -- After Making Love in Winter -- May 1968 -- First Birth -- Her First Week -- Bathing the New Born -- History of Medicine -- Milk-Bubble Ruins -- Socks -- A Mother at the End of June -- Twelve Years Old -- The Hand -- Good Will -- Lament -- Poem to Our Son After a High Fever -- Prayer During That Time -- Forty-One, Alone, No Gerbil -- The Cast -- The Siblings -- Love's Eyesight -- The Transformed Boy -- The Last Birthday at Home -- Solo -- Physics -- My Son the Man -- First Formal -- The Ordeal |
| Subject |
Women poets, American.
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American poetry -- Women authors.
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| ISBN |
0679445927 |
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9780679445920 |
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0679765603 paperback $21.00 ($28.95 Can.) |
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9780679765608 paperback |
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