The star-spangled banner [electronic resource] / Denise Duhamel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duhamel, Denise.

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations--Poetry.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" as ""José, can you see?"", which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what ""yes"" means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's ""Nick at Nite"" with a husband who grew up in the

Contents:

Cover; Title Pages; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ~ *; Yes; The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope; Lines; The Little I Know about Eyes; Happy Ending; Stranger; Grace; How Much Is This Poem Going to Cost Me?; ~ * *; Bangungot; Insomnio; The Therapist's Funeral: for Rodney Godden; White Virgin: a statue of Mary in Toledo, Spain; Art; Nick at Nite; ~ * * *; Where to Find Feminine Protection While Traveling in a Foreign Country; Cockroaches; Fairy Tale; Surgery; Scared about What Was There; ~ * * * *; I'm Dealing with My Pain; Tulip; House-Sitting; Sex with a Famous Poet

Skipping BreakfastAnother Poem Called ''Sphincter''; June 13, 1995; ~ * * * * *; A Kissing; Noctilucae; Husband as a Second Language; The Star-Spangled Banner; Playa Naturista; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8332-2

1-299-05087-5

0-585-09830-1

OCLC:

842997794