Sleeping Preacher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kasdorf, Julia

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

Summary:

Annotation Winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The poems in this book deal with life in a Pennsylvania Mennonite community and the tensions and conflicts that exist for the speaker as she tries to be true to two worlds, the other being New York City.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Green Market, New York

I Carry Dead Vesta

Vesta's Father

The Sleeping Preacher

When Our Women Go Crazy

St. Francis Preaches to the Birds

A Family History

The Mean Words of Jesus

The Only Photograph of My Father as a Boy

Song of Enough

Grossdaadi's Funeral

Grossdaadi's Sale

Dying with Amish Uncles

Leftover Blessings

Where We Are

August

Freindschaft

Along Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn

That Story

First TV in a Mennonite Family

Uncle

Grackles

Cousins

The Interesting Thing

Older Brother

Catholics

Mennonites

Clear Night at the End of the Twentieth Century

The Body Remembers

What Language Is For

How to Think of Danger

Their Marriage

Blood

What I Learned from My Mother

After the Second Miscarriage

Sezisman

This Year's Seder

Mother

For Weatherly, Still in New York

Piano, New York

At the Acme Bar and Grill

Sunday Night Supper for a Mennonite, 1991

The Path to a Man's Heart

Handling Tools

The View

Stevious

Knees

Riding Bike with No Hands

Prospect Park, Holy Week

Morning Glories

Notes.

Notes:

Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979296

0822979292

OCLC:

1144252455