| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
89 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
American poets continuum series ; no. 73 |
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American poets continuum series ; v. 73.
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| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award, 2002 |
| Contents |
Introduction / Dorianne Laux -- If There Is No God -- Everything on the Menu -- God and the G-Spot -- If -- Jack Gottlieb's in Love -- Remodeling the Bathroom -- His Teeth -- In Which a Deer Is Found in a Bubble Bath ... -- Pay for It -- Sometimes, After Making Love -- If There Is No God -- Birds Do It -- Birds Do It -- Backdoor Karaoke -- Poem to My Sex at Fifty-One -- Basket of Figs -- Marriage Without Sex -- Sleeping With You -- The Sad Truth -- Tigers and People -- On Seeing Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa -- Can't Get Over Her -- Tulip Blossoms -- For My Daughter on Her Twenty-First Birthday -- Working in the Garden -- Oh Demeter -- Worry -- In My Hands -- Guilt -- Laundry -- Happiness After Sorrow -- The Moon -- After Our Daughter's Wedding -- Tulip Blossoms -- Insomnia -- Mighty Strong Poems -- Why People Murder -- Phone Therapy -- Bearing Witness -- The Thing Is -- Sleeping Next to the Man on the Plane -- I Love the Way Men Crack -- Getting My Hands on My Mother's Body -- And What If I Spoke of Despair -- Insomnia -- Colophon. |
| Summary |
Balancing heart-intelligent intimacy and surprising humor, the poems in Ellen Bass's Mules of Love illuminate the essential dynamics of our lives: family, community, sexual love, joy, loss, religion and death. The poems also explore the darker aspects of humanity--personal, cultural, historical and environmental violence--all of which are handled with compassion and grace. Bass's poetic gift is her ability to commiserate with others afflicted by similar hungers and grief. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Bass, Ellen. Mules of love. 1st ed. Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2002 (OCoLC)606770395 |
| ISBN |
1929918224 (pbk.) |
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9781929918225 (pbk.) |
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