| Description |
71 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Poems. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Bust of a young girl in the snow -- When we were good we were ... -- Immortality -- Birthday -- Doppelgänger -- Prick and twinge -- Electret -- High tea -- Soakaway -- Salon -- Barbecue -- Ice storm -- Passeggiata -- Scaffold for a sonnet -- We are bold to say -- Floaters -- The end of illness is the end of metaphor -- Our house -- part 2. Sixteen -- The sacrifice -- After Pindar -- Accommodation -- Vague -- You bother me -- Envy -- Prayer during a fast -- Red mulberry -- Homesickness -- Floater -- Pounce -- Tin drumming -- After the accident -- Loose thread -- part 3. Follow -- Sigh -- Detach -- Compost -- Bob White -- A ha ha fence -- Pond in winter -- Three sides to the mountain that are really one -- Juncture -- Lost -- Parting prayer -- Dusk -- Floating city -- This or that -- On the birth of a daughter. |
| Summary |
Bad Daughter explores misbehavior--its risky pleasures and often tragic consequences--through poems about "bad" daughters, sisters, and their mothers. What happens to the sister who obeys? What if a daughter refuses her inheritance? Can she? What sanctuary and what limits do worship and domesticity provide? Gorham adopts several lyric forms--'morality tales', ironic prayers, scaled-down sonnets, sharp meditations on concepts such as envy, detachment, and immortality--to show that the self as forged by generations of women and girls is both subversive and enduring. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Lyrik.
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Amerikanisches Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781935536161 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1935536168 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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