Rouge Pulp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barresi, Dorothy

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rouge Pulp explores notions of body and beauty, birth and death, in a contemporary America driven by its contradictions: material plenty and spiritual lack. Dorothy Barresi writes about strippers, hair salons, cancer, good credit ratings, cockfights, childbirth, maternal love, war. Her poems take the world's brutal vitality as their music, and they refuse to despair.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Grendel's Mother

Glass Dress

Body Says

At the Posh Salon Called Ultra

Neither Moth nor Rust

Mother, My Porous China, Gone

The Irish in Me

The Last Kennedy

Poem for the 35th Anniversary of Valium

Poem to Some of My Recent Purchases

Sock Hop with the New Critics

Fifties Song (or, We Are All Born under Eisenhower)

Cuttings

Resurrection Savant

Charity Begins

For Dante at One

Rouge Pulp

Chronic

Without Panic

Bad Joke

The Rat Man

El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles

Rooster

For the Coyote Who Ate Spike: A Revenge in Two Parts

Dorothyism

Rough Simple

The Heaven of Otto Plath

To the Place of Unhurried Goodbyes

Black Hope Blues

Tippin' In

What We Spent It On

Poem for an Impeachment

Waiting for the Hanged Pirate

Little Dreams of War

Expect Mercy, Crave Relief

Possibly I Have Misunderstood

Dante Extant, Born and Unborn

Unkissing

At Five Months

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979791

0822979799

OCLC:

1256510561