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The Christmas show / Harriet Levin ; with an introduction by Eavan Boland.
Van Pelt Library PS3562.E88959 C48 1997
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LIBRA PS3562.E88959 C48 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levin, Harriet.
- Series:
- Barnard new women poets series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 84 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Beginning with the stunning title poem about her younger sister's brutal rape, Harriet Levin juxtaposes the ordinary with the terrible in this powerful collection which won the 1996 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. In his Introduction, Eavan Boland says, "Harriet Levin is a wonderfully courageous and exacting poet. . . . (These) poems will attract many readers".
- Contents:
- The Christmas Show 3
- I Begin to Leave Home When I Read Darwin 5
- The Magnitude of the Crisis 7
- Father's Shut in the Sedan 9
- There Is Something to Be Said 11
- Bay of Fundy 12
- Racetrack 13
- Buoyancy 16
- Flight 17
- Bird of Paradise 22
- Violative 24
- Home Comfort in a Hunter's Cabin 27
- Looking at the Temple of Dendur 31
- Still Moment Near Tipton 37
- Amulet 38
- Midday 41
- This Morning I Went as Far 43
- Everything That You Suspect Is True 46
- Ghost Town 48
- Because of That 49
- Couple Held at a Distance 51
- Fire 52
- Sustenance 57
- French Movie 60
- What Stopped Her 61
- In Grandfather's Stamp Room 62
- Pinpoints Of Stars 65
- Thrown Out 67
- Twins 69
- History of My World 71
- Frederick Harding 73
- Extremes 75
- Lyssa 76
- White Sail 78
- Argumentum Ad Hominem 80
- Labrador 83.
- ISBN:
- 0807068373
- OCLC:
- 35646414
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