| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
ix, 143 pages ; 21 cm |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
What Remains -- They inhabit me -- The Annuity -- Waking one afternoon in my best dress -- Out of the rubbish -- Of pumpkins and ghosts I sing -- Unbuttoning -- The sun and the moon in the morning sky of Charlotte -- Putting the good things away -- The Crunch -- What remains -- My mother's body -- The Chuppah -- Witnessing a wedding -- Touch tones -- The place where everything changed -- What Makes It Good? -- Why marry at all? -- We Come Together -- Every leaf is a mouth -- The Wine -- The Chuppah -- How we make nice -- House-keeping -- Return of the prodigal darling -- Down -- House built of breath -- The infidelity of sleep -- Nailing up the mezuzah -- Chiaroscuro -- The good go down -- Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein -- Where is my half-used tube of Tom's fennel toothpaste tonight? -- Your cats are your children -- Mr. Big -- The maternal instinct at work -- Magic mama -- Nothing more will happen -- Blue Tuesday in August -- The Disinherited -- Cold head, cold heart -- Deferral -- Breaking out -- Paper birds -- Listening to a speech -- Making a will -- Still life -- From HoJo's to Mr. Softee -- The longings of women -- Out of sight -- Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light? -- Underrated Pleasures -- Building is taming -- Cowering in a corner -- The Listmaker -- Going into town in the storm -- The clumsy season -- Silk confetti -- And whose creature am I? -- In praise of gazebos -- The Faithless -- If I had been called Sabrina or Ann, she said -- The night the moon got drunk. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Piercy, Marge. My mother's body. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1985 (OCoLC)567842752 |
| ISBN |
0394729455 paperback $7.95 |
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9780394729459 paperback |
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0394543432 hardcover |
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9780394543437 hardcover |
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