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Walking Back Up Depot Street.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social problems--Poetry.
- Social problems.
- Women--Women.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of poetry that is both the story of the segregated rural south and the story of a white woman who is leaving that home for the postindustrial north.
- Contents:
- Shades
- Central prison
- Bust of Martha Mitchell to be unveiled
- Swingblade
- Painting her fingernails red
- Button
- Red string
- The blue cup
- A cold not the opposite of life
- Out of season
- Strange flesh
- The white star
- The A & P
- The possum eats out of the graveyard
- On the silver coast
- What the cat knows
- At deep midnight
- The road to Selma
- Second sight
- The gate
- The petrified woman
- The subway entrance
- Bone day
- Snake eyes
- The shrine
- Fighting fire
- The ferry
- The great migration
- Trash
- Eating clay
- The remnant shop
- Cost and use
- The other side.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Winner, 1999
- ISBN:
- 9780822980841
- 0822980843
- OCLC:
- 301104010
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