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The Horse Fair.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Becker, Robin
Series:
Pitt poetry series.
Pitt poetry series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--Jewish authors.
American poetry.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Becker investigates how marginalized individuals negotiate public and private spheres, while inventing sustainable communities. She also explores anti-Semitism, cross-dressing, and painter Rosa Bonheur's lifelong relationships with women.
Contents:
The horse fair
Ephemera
Life forms
The wood lot
Phaeton
Solstice Bay
Dylan's fault
The donor
Raccoon
Autumn song
The keeper
Wants
Elegy for a secular man
In praise of the basset hound
Dog-god
The abandoned meander
Mid-life
Late words for my sister
In the days of awe
The unnamed city
Sisters in perpetual motion
The grief of trees
Sad Sestina
Rustic portrait
The evidence
Sonnet to the imagination
Harvest girl
Adult child
Yoga.
The triumph of Charlotte Salomon
Against silence
Why we fear the Amish
The monarchs of Parque Tranquilidad
Community Garden, Sixth Street and Avenue B
Midnight at the Third Street Sculpture Garden
The Liz Christy-Bowery Houston Garden
Angels of the Lower East Side.
Notes:
Preliminaries omitted.
ISBN:
9780822979241
0822979241
OCLC:
1257349247

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