| Description |
xii, 79 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 1997"--Page volume. |
| Contents |
You Can't Have It All -- Top Dog -- My Train -- Margin of Error -- Bad Hair -- All This and Heaven -- The Correct Analysis -- God in Hawaii -- Abundancia -- Taza Shambal -- Low Planes -- Letter to the Front, 1 -- Letter to the Front, 2 -- Tropical Light -- Fish Out of Water -- Angels on Holiday -- The Bus That Travels Only by Day -- Perspective -- At Home in the Rainforest -- Yelapa -- To a Friend Growing Feathers in a Bar -- The Bus Hot Enough for Everything -- Where the Sky Opens at the Very Top -- Childhood -- Pregnant Poets Swim Lake Tarleton, New Hampshire -- Letting Go of Land -- Anna to Anna -- When Ground Becomes the Sky -- In the New Country -- Girl in the Widow's Walk -- Girl in the Cellar -- Other Deaths -- The Sadness of Parents -- The Sadness of Kids -- The Sadness of Puppies -- The Sadness of Bodies -- The Sadness of Money -- The Sadness of Couples -- The Sadness of Memory -- The Sadness of Death -- The Sadness of Change -- The Sadness of Insects -- The Sadness of Desire -- The Sadness of Failure -- The Sadness of Surrender -- The Sadness of the Sea. |
| Summary |
"Whether honoring a dead friend or reveling in the lustful music of insects, whether on a Costa Rican bus "hot enough to contain all desire" or on a BART train abundantly full of experience and memory, whether delighting in the wacky wisdom of kids or ruing the silly hunger of adults, Ras's poems poke into unlikely nooks and invented crannies. Lines that find their start in the seemingly personal reach out toward questions that matter to everyone, how to laugh, how to hope, how to love."--Jacket. |
| Awards |
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 1999 |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Women authors -- Poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01177198
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| ISBN |
0807122637 (alk. paper) |
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9780807122631 (alk. paper) |
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0807122645 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780807122648 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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