She took off her wings and shoes : poems / by Suzette Marie Bishop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Suzette.

Series:

May Swenson Poetry Award series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

x, 91 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

She took off her wings & shoes

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2003]

Contents:

1 Do Not Drive into Smoke

Reaching for Your Hair 3

Disruptions 4

Elegant Shrimp in Champagne Sauce 5

My Dream House 8

House-Sitting 9

Knowing Objects Will Outlast Them 10

My Gown is a Momentary Outline 11

Dragons 12

The Bat 13

One Summer 14

Exit Interview 15

Melinda 16

Horrorscope 17

Graveyard 19

Visiting Relatives 20

Mirror and Sword Trick 22

In the Holy Spirit Research Center 24

Least Terns 25

Bloodstone 26

Water Moccasin 28

Anasazi Bowl 30

Do Not Drive into Smoke 31

Wedding Triptych 32

Cool Wagons & Bone Chandeliers 36

Through the Corridor 38

Departing Iceland 39

2 As Good There as Here to Burn

At the Ramada Inn with Ruth and Esther 45

Emitting a Sound 48

Conversation with Anne Truitt 50

The Conservator 51

Purple Gloxinia 52

Hannah Hoch 53

Beneath Eva Hesse's Fiberglass Veil 55

Photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay 61

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz 62

The Ghost of Christina Rossetti 65

As Good There as Here to Burn 69

3 She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes

She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes (a long poem) 73

The May Swenson Poetry Award 91.

ISBN:

0874215676

OCLC:

52301628