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The year we studied women / Bruce Snider.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.N53 Y43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snider, Bruce.
- Series:
- Felix Pollak prize in poetry (Series)
- The Felix Pollak prize in poetry
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xii, 97 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In this intimate first collection Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss, and identity in poems about everything from algebra to sperm to lipstick. A farmer finds the body of a dead child, a boy watches his mother get ready for a date, a woman with cancer shops for a wig, an overweight sister shares a cupcake with her little brother. In the book's longest and most complex poem a tarot card reading excavates the relationship between a son and his distant, often violent father. Sometimes funny, always big-hearted and inventive, Snider catalogues the minutiae of daily life with language that is plainspoken yet strongly imagistic, weaving together both public and private moments as he maps one man's longing for transformation. It's an attempt to reconcile it all -- past and present, fear and desire, self and sexuality -- making the barest symbols of maleness and femaleness into their own deeply personal language.
- Contents:
- A Drag Queen Is Like a Poem 3
- The Certainty of Numbers 5
- Another Kind of Sword, Another Kind of Stone 7
- April 10
- The Reading 12
- Not an Elegy 36
- Physical Education 38
- Prayer for a Snowy Day 40
- Making It Up 42
- Child's Play 44
- Morning 46
- Fabric 49
- School Dance 51
- Strawberries 55
- Wigs and Tanning 57
- Aunt Ginny's Birthday Wish 60
- The Fat Sister Speaks 62
- Another Confessional Poet Raises Her Hand 64
- This Is the Last Poem with the Ocean in It 66
- The History of Lipstick 68
- Sperm 71
- Making Room 73
- Skeletons 75
- News 77
- The Eagle Tattoo 79
- Letter to an Imagined Lover 81
- The Variables 83
- Against Nostalgia 86
- Nostalgia 88
- True, My Father Is a Postman 90
- The Beginning 93.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0299193802
- 0299193845
- OCLC:
- 51900455
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