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I wore the ocean in the shape of a girl : a memoir / Kelle Groom.
Van Pelt Library PS3607.R64 Z46 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Groom, Kelle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Groom, Kelle.
- Poets, American--21st century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Grief--Biography.
- Grief.
- Alcoholism--Biography.
- Alcoholism.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- A noted poet presents a full-length memoir based on her autobiographical "Ploughshares" essay that recounts her struggles with alcoholism and search for answers after her son's death from leukemia.
- Contents:
- Evidence of Things Unseen 1
- The Boy with His Mother Inside Him 8
- Constellation 11
- Godzilla 17
- Book of Lifesavers 23
- The Worst Thing That Can Happen 28
- Seven Works of Mercy 35
- The Last Time I Saw Her 38
- Regency 47
- Night Train 53
- Gore Street 63
- El Paso 73
- Space City 80
- Weapons Department 84
- Sugar Mountain 87
- Broadway 97
- Mirror 107
- Palindrome 114
- The Shoe Museum 123
- Migration 134
- How to Make a Shoe 140
- Hotline 145
- Arabia 150
- Hour of Death 155
- 1982 158
- Aortic 163
- Shelter 168
- Australia 176
- Informant 180
- Guanyin 185
- Radiolarians 213
- The Floating Island 225.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781451616682
- 1451616686
- OCLC:
- 687664150
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