Love on the streets : selected and new poems / Sharon Doubiago.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doubiago, Sharon, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Love on the Streets is a selection from two of Doubiago's book-length poems, Hard Country and South America Mi Hija and from the collections Psyche Drives the Coast and Body and Soul, plus new poems. Hard Country takes place in 1976, on a journey across the U.S. with a lover, climaxing on the lake where his mother drowned herself when he was ten. South America Mi Hija is a journey the poet made with her 15 year-old daughter to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Psyche Drives the Coast are poems written while Doubiago lived mainly on the road, and in diverse, passionate communities of poets from Mendocino to the Canadian border. Body and Soul was written while she was a resident of Oregon, and the new poems are written from her present home in San Francisco.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

from Hard Country (1982)

Signal Hill

I Was Born Coming to the Sea

Father

L.A. Blonde

Love Song for a Man Whose Mother Killed Herself

from Visions of a Daughter of Albion

1. Land of Heart's Desire

My Mother Is a Poem I Will Never Write

Kerouac and Monroe on Kalaloch

Crazy Horse

Infant Found Alive at Wounded Knee

Appalachian Song

from Ramon: The Colorado

12. Mojave

from Psyche Drives the Coast (1990)

Outlaw

Concert

The Stations of the Cross

from The Orpheus Poems

Electric Violin

Eros

Beneath the World: Two Poems to the Child Never to be Born

from Self

from Part I. The Journal of Albion Moonlight

10. The Meaning of No Self

from Part II. Psyche Drives the Coast

2. "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

3. Sleep: The I in Language

5. The God Comes Out of Your Mouth, California

from Hunger

From Hunger II

The World and Francis Hughes

from Hunger III: The Days

Day Eleven: Hunger Songs

from Hunger IV

End Hunger

Ground Zero

from South America Mi Hija (1992)

from I. The Road to Quito

from 1. Descent: La Violencia

from III. The Road to Lima

1. Pan American

a. They Drive With Their Horns

from IV. Lima

from 2. Night: Buried America

c. Love Song to Strong Wind, Amerrique

from V. The Road to Cuzco

from 6: Nuestro Che: The Monroe Doctrine

from VII. The Heights of Macchu Picchu

2. Alturas de Macchu Picchu

c. I ask you...show me...allow me...to...touch el hombre

from Body and Soul (2000)

Santas

Marrying Ramon at Thirteen

Under the Steering Wheel

Bride

Son

Arrested Love

My Brother's Keeper

As We Make Love I See Her Nez Perce Face on Main Street Cursing Me

Answer

Eagle

Two Weeks

War: Old Best Friend

Twelve Weeks

The War.

The Poet Laureate of Vietnam

Keintpoos

The Border

Marriage

Face

Psyche between Two Palms in San Diego

The Geography of My Soul, 2

Deer

Whales

How to Make Love to a Man

Cojo at the Millennium

Color of Love

The Millennium: Free Him

New Poems (2000-2008)

Hip Hop Hopi Hope

Hitchhiking with Walt Whitman

Before the Fire

January 1, 2000, 3 a.m., the Caspar Headlands

Bombing Baghdad Again

Terror

Be Ahead of All Parting

Primitive

100 Memories I Don't Remember

Memory Is Pictures Inside You

Homeless on Good Friday

Love in the Ruins

Sally Hemings's Dress

Loving Che Again

Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay

Prayer

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822978237

0822978237

OCLC:

867791001