| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
89 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Once -- Mothered -- My aunts -- Diagnosis -- Chemotherapy -- Twenty-first century fireworks -- The great escape -- Anticipatory grief -- When it went to her brain -- Extraneous -- Hart -- Preparation -- Elegy : hill without scar -- Frontier -- Appeal to the self -- My life as a subject -- On marriage -- Mala mala -- Churchyard -- In the same boat -- Theory vs. practice -- Ophelia to the court -- Anesthesia -- Love poem -- Apartment living -- My life as a ruler -- Magnolia -- Sonogram -- After her death -- Sex, again -- Inventory -- In defense of pain -- My mother -- Localized -- Pike's Peak -- The resistance to metaphor -- Seven months later -- Still -- Faith. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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| ISBN |
9780393080629 hardcover |
|
0393080625 hardcover |
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