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Filthy labors : poems / Lauren Marie Schmidt.
LIBRA PS3619.C44575 F55 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt, Lauren (Poet), author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homeless mothers--Poetry.
- Homeless mothers.
- Women caregivers--Poetry.
- Women caregivers.
- Families--Poetry.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 90 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books, Northwestern University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- In Filthy Labors, Lauren Marie Schmidt draws on personal observations from her position as a poetry teacher at a shelter for homeless mothers, as well as her own roles as daughter and sister through times of family turmoil. She condemns the indignities suffered by the poor and the powerless and praises the work of those who do the caretaking. Here is poetry in the great tradition of social justice literature going back to Walt Whitman. Organized around the Catholic sacraments, these poems call upon Whitman directly, for his words replace the liturgical text of these rituals to rejoice in the redemptive power of poetry in the absence of religion's saving grace. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Holy orders
- In defense of poetry
- Penance
- Paterson
- How we go
- The mother called Meh-lay-gross
- The English teacher gets a lesson in inference
- The truth about Dionna
- The room toss Villanelle
- Ladies' day at the playhouse
- Bastard Ghazal for the death of snap
- Welfare mothers
- Holy orders
- Unto others
- Anointing of the sick
- My father asks me to kill him
- The Christmas gift
- Never too late for amazement
- Grandpa's 70th birthday
- The nursing home
- Silver alert
- Second drink
- Exercises in mourning
- Baptism
- The box marked "F"
- What I learned about my father one day at the beach in 1986
- Daughter
- Memorial park
- My parents' new house, one year after Hurricane Sandy
- Inheritance
- Confirmation
- Faith
- Mother Teresa, our dearly beloved mother
- The rapture
- Till death
- Before grief
- Initiations
- Parany
- The Fourth of July
- On Route 208
- The social worker's advice
- Communion
- Trial by onions
- Receiving
- Cloistered
- Some joy
- Expectations
- Brittany's tattoo
- Looking for Whitman.
- ISBN:
- 9780810134690
- 0810134691
- OCLC:
- 959275733
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