| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vii, 98 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Part One: War woman with the lettuce -- Legless fighter pilot -- What could happen -- The dead -- When he came for the family -- The signal -- The leader -- The smile -- Free shoes -- The body-sniffers -- His crew -- The body Part two: The Cannery the Cannery, 1942-1945 -- Diagnosis -- At night -- Behavior chart -- Calvinist parents -- Money -- Fly on the wall in the Puritan home -- Maiden name -- Men's singles, 1952 -- The float -- Freezer -- The bra -- The couldn't -- Home theater, 1955 -- Paterfamilias -- Easter1960 Part Three: Umbilicus Umbilicus -- when our firstborn slept in -- Toth Farry -- Home Ec -- The Space Heater -- Barbarous artifacts -- Animal dress -- Royal Beauty Bright -- Self-exam -- The riser -- Wooden ode -- The scare -- Pansy Coda -- Last words, death row, circa 2030 -- Self-portrait, rear view -- The dead -- Sleeves -- Good measure Part Four: Cassiopeia He is taken away -- The music -- The ecstatic -- Two late dialogues Mom as Comet Her Creed Warily, Sportsman! Little end ode -- Something is happening -- Cassiopeia Part Five: One Secret Thing Still life -- One secret thing -- The last evening -- Last hour -- To see my mother -- When I left her -- Western wind -- Satin Maroon -- Nereid elegy. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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| ISBN |
9780307269928 |
|
0307269922 |
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9780375711770 paperback |
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0375711775 paperback |
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