Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
x, 80 pages ; 22 cm. |
Series |
Knopf poetry series ; 13 |
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Knopf poetry series ; 13.
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Note |
"The Lamont poetry selection for 1983"--Cover. |
Form |
Also issued online. |
Contents |
Poems for the Dead -- Public -- Ideographs -- Photograph of the Girl -- Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 -- Portrait of a Child -- Nevsky Prospekt -- The Death of Marilyn Monroe -- The Issues -- Aesthetics of the Shah -- Things That Are Worse Than Death -- Private -- The Guild -- Grandmother Love Poem -- The Eye -- Birthday Poem for My Grandmother -- Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once -- Farewell Poem -- The Winter After Your Death -- Miscarriage -- The End -- Best Friends -- Absent One -- Poems for the Living -- The Family -- Possessed -- The Victims -- The Forms -- The Departure -- Burn Center -- The Ideal Father -- Fate -- My Father Snoring -- The Moment -- My Father's Breasts -- The Takers -- The Pact -- The Derelict -- Late Speech with My Brother -- The Elder Sister -- The Men -- The Connoisseuse of Slugs -- Poem to My First Lover -- New Mother -- The Line -- The Fear of Oneself -- Poem to My Husband from My Father's Daughter -- Sex Without Love -- Ecstasy -- The Children -- Exclusive -- Six-Year-Old Boy -- Eggs -- Size and Sheer Will -- For My Daughter -- Rite of Passage -- Relinquishment -- Son -- Pre-Adolescent in Spring -- Blue Son -- Pajamas -- The Killer -- The Sign of Saturn -- Armor -- 35/10 -- The Missing Boy -- Bread -- Bestiary -- The One Girl at the Boys' Party -- The Couple. |
Subject |
Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Olds, Sharon. Dead and the living. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1984 (OCoLC)566118873 |
ISBN |
0394530489 paperback $6.95 |
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9780394530482 paperback |
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9780394715636 paperback |
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0394715632 paperback |
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