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Red silk : poems / Maryfrances Wagner.

Van Pelt Library PS3573.A3865 R43 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wagner, Maryfrances, author.
Contributor:
Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Italian American families--Poetry.
Italian American families.
Genre:
Poetry.
Physical Description:
70 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Kansas City, Missouri : BkMk Press, [2022]
Summary:
"Red Silk by Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner is now back in print. Winner of the Thorpe Menn Award, Red Silk's subjects draw upon her Italian-American immigrant family, personal reverberations of the Vietnam War, and coming of age in the Midwest." -- publisher's website.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. New Starts
The Immigrants Get a New Camera
First Days
Miss Clement's Second Grade
The Turning of Wheels
Easter Chicks
Magic Feet
Mr. Cohick's Physical Science Class
Scimeca's
2. The Results of Some Hoping
Final Impression
Fledgling
My Sophomores View the Eclipse
The Potential of Intention
Front of the Bus
3. Victims Lose Direction
Red Silk
Letters from Viet Nam
Wounded in Chu Lai
Wedding Night
First Month
Shadows
Faces
Ambush
Separation
Ghost in Starlight
4. When the Pollen Count Is High
Awakening
Softening Up
Twelve Days on Methadone
Sorting Things Out
Gardenias
Between Truth and Wish
Homing
Late August
Chilly in our Gowns
To the Bone
Long-Distance Love.
Notes:
Reprint: originally published by the Mid-America Press.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
ISBN:
1943491348
9781943491346
OCLC:
1285916874
Publisher Number:
99993602307

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