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Spectacle / Lauren Goodwin Slaughter.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.L38448 S64 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slaughter, Lauren Goodwin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Motherhood--Poetry.
- Motherhood.
- Families--Poetry.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pensacola, Florida : Panhandler Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- In Spectacle, poet Lauren Goodwin Slaughter deepens her commitment to the enduring and eternal subjects of womanhood, motherhood, and family, and deftly considers how those devotions intersect in ways joyful, mysterious, and cruel within personal and political landscapes.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Alice the Corpse Flower Blooms at the Chicago Botanic Garden
- II. Julie, Den Haag, February 29, 1994 / Rineke Dijkstra
- Pulse
- Kitchen, 5 a.m.
- Cookery
- Birthday Parties
- The Fourth Bomb Threat; Birmingham JCC
- The Chemistry of Color
- Vila Franca de Xira, May 8, 1994 / Rineke Dijkstra
- Self Portrait, Marnixbad, Amsterdam, June 19, 1991 / Rineke Dijkstra
- III. In Praise of Dark Matter
- Elegy for Michael Friedman
- Syringe Training, Home Visit
- Tornado Season
- Boner
- Ghost Forests
- Ode to the Funeral Program for My Friend Mark's Mom
- Mom Turns 79 during the Global Pandemic
- Shut Up Amy Cooper
- Lockdown, 2020
- The Days and Weeks Ahead
- IV. Lina and Bruun, Amsterdam, Dec. 7, 2016 / Rineke Dijkstra
- With My Sister in the Bathroom
- Euphemisms
- In-Flight: Philadelphia to Birmingham
- The Paramedics
- Sometimes You Just Have to Grow Up
- Waiting for Another Call from My Sister in the Middle of the Night
- Trich: What My Sister's Treatment May Involve
- On Seeing the Girl at the Gym with Bald Patches
- I Hit My Sister with the Speak-N-Spell
- Sister Dance Off
- V. Vondelpark, Amsterdam, June 19, 2005 / Rineke Dijkstra
- "Asteroid Heading to Earth: Will Your Cell Phones Go Out?"
- The Neutral Ones
- Ode to My Daughter's Burden
- Ode to the Frog in Her Throat
- Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992 / Rineke Dijkstra
- Before The Birth of Venus.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0991640462
- 9780991640461
- OCLC:
- 1286365963
- Publisher Number:
- 99991672725
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