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Strange Valentine / A. Loudermilk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loudermilk, A.
- Series:
- Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
- Crab Orchard series in poetry : first book award
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interpersonal relations--Poetry.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Human body--Poetry.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (102 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A.Loudermilk utilizes confessional, persona, and third-person poems throughout this intimate yet socially conscious first collection.Strange Valentine is an indictment of love, fixating on the paranoid relationship between body and state, on the dangerous relationship between family history and sexual history, and on the elusive relationship.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Daring Love
- Inheritance
- Belt
- Stepmother
- Not Even Doublewide
- Rent
- First National Bank, a fantasy
- Spanking Birds
- El Diablo Nuevo
- Strange Valentine
- Strange Valentine II
- Agoraphobia
- The Steepest Cake
- Married Women: A Sideshow
- Mema 's Hat
- Kicked Dog
- Talk Like a Sailor
- She Hardly Ever Says a Word
- While the Pentecostal Men Are in Their Cars, a fantasy
- Spinster
- Mema's Funeral
- Shitbanger Girl
- The Working Body
- The Undescending Man
- Threading Needles, a fantasy
- The Radium Dial
- Thalidomide
- The Smallest Woman in the World Who Once Posed on the Lap of the Richest Man in America Considers the Bad Dreams of the Tallest Man Who Ever Lived
- After the Accident: The Evenings &
- the Nights of Cole Porter
- Ugly Dares the Marriage Vow
- The Pocketbook Women
- No One's Favorite Aunt Died Blonde
- For the Great-Aunt Who Collected Clocks
- The Great-Aunt Who Collected Clocks Meets the Burglar
- For the Great-Aunt Who Attempted Suicide
- She Talks a Mile a Minute
- For the Great-Aunt Who Never Married
- For the Great-Aunt Who Married Twice
- The Great-Aunt Who Never Let a Nigger in Her House Meets the Colored Nurse
- The Pocketbook Women of You-Be-Dam Holler
- Conversation, a fantasy
- The Last Call
- Half-Right Hymn
- Buckshot
- Give Me a Word for All This
- Not Even Liebestraum
- Domelight
- After That Night in the Parking Garage
- In Minor Places,a fantasy
- Sooner
- Crooked County (At The Bluebird with You)
- Teeth in the Garden &
- Other Evidence
- Proof
- Drama
- Trash w/Dog
- Hospice Rattle
- Drama II
- Evidence
- Nurse, a fantasy
- Archaeology
- Notes
- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8093-8854-5
- 1-299-05080-8
- OCLC:
- 607728951
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