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The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, Minnie Bruce
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Women poets, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Suffused with pain and power, Minnie Bruce Pratt's poetry is as evocative of the swamps and streets of the southern United States as it is of the emotional lives of those too often forced into the margins of society. Vivid, lush, and intensely honest, these poems capture the rough edges of the world and force us to pay attention.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Learning to Write
- The Sound of One Fork, 1981
- Cahaba
- My Cousin Anne
- My Mother Loves Women
- Elbows
- Romance
- The Sound of One Fork
- from The Segregated Heart
- We Say We Love Each Other, 1985
- Sharing the Eye
- Sharp Glass
- Waulking Song: Two
- We Say We Love Each Other
- Your Hand Opens Me
- The Fact of the Garden
- Reading Maps: Three
- Crime Against Nature, 1990
- Poem for My Sons
- Justice, Come Down
- Declared Not Fit
- No Place
- Down the Little Cahaba
- All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
- The Place Lost and Gone, the Place Found
- A Waving Hand
- from Shame
- The First Question
- Motionless on the Dark Side of the Light
- My Life You Are Talking About
- I Am Ready to Tell All I Know
- In the Waiting Room at the Draft Board
- from At Fifteen, the Oldest Son Comes to Visit
- Talking to Charlie
- The Laughing Place
- Another Question
- Crime Against Nature
- Walking Back Up Depot Street, 1999
- Walking Back Up Depot Street
- Red String
- Eating Clay
- The Remnant Shop
- New Poems
- Learning to Talk
- Cutting Hair
- Doing Physical Therapy
- Shoveling Sand
- Day Off
- Breakfast
- Reading the Classifieds
- Picking Up a Job Application
- Getting Money at the ATM
- Playing the Lottery
- Giving a Manicure
- Picketing the Bargain Store, They Said
- Chopping Peppers
- Author's Note and Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 9780822980872
- 0822980878
- OCLC:
- 606943517
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