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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.
- 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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