Mad river /
""In every poem, she keeps her fury contained, but omnipresent, so that it resembles a cornered dog's warning growl, yet she hints of happier possibilities.""--Booklist""Beatty does offer deeply visceral and sensory work, especially in the second and third sections...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press
©1995.
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| Edice: | Pitt poetry series.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hjnw1 |
Obsah:
- Contents
- I
- If This Is Sex, It Must Be Tuesday
- Mad River
- Grabbing at Beauty
- What We Can Count On
- The Rolling Rock Man
- Pittsburgh Poem
- The Order of Things
- 1,200 lb. Man Starts on Road to 190 lbs.
- Fifteen Minutes at the Dairy Mart
- Ravenous Blue
- Leonard Avenue
- II
- Highway 99
- Getting Through
- Letter to Mario
- As If That's All There Is
- Awake in a Strange Landscape
- An Abortion Attempt by my Mother
- Morning Radio
- fifteen
- Ferry at Night
- Watching My Father
- Fog
- Dream with No WordsSucking
- Self-Hatred
- Walking in Shade
- Wanting to Continue
- III
- Saving the Crippled Boy
- What I Want
- Introducing You to My Dead Father
- Breaking the Skin
- after sex on a train
- Love Poem
- Visiting My Father a Few Days Before His Operation
- Ghost Orchid
- The Space That Remains
- A Waitress' Instructions on Tipping orGet the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time
- T-shirts
- Standing by the McKenzie River at Night
- Blue Dress
- Not Thinking About Gardenias
- Asking the Dead for Help
- The Flower GardenOne Hand on the Door
- Free World
- Acknowledgments