Pretend the world : poems / by Kathryn Kysar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kysar, Kathryn, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Poetry.

Women.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (71 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press ; Jackson, Tenn. : distributed to the trade by Consortium Books Sales & Distribution, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A compelling new poetry collection, focusing on motherhood, the Mideast conflict, and historical settings in northern Minnesota.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; ACT 1; Last October; Farm House Girl; Dream Poem; Diary of a First Grader; First Kiss; The Hideaway; I Sit Still in Church with a Pencil; Salvation; German; Things I Learned from My Grandmother; The Effects of Loud Rock and Roll on an Unborn Fetus; Ada Asleep/Age Three; Dresses Everywhere; Playing with Planes; Under a Plastic Tarp; Holding Her; Faultlines; Monkey on a Wire; The Storm; Cutting Bread; ACT 2; Bones; Reverend Tennyson Comes to Call; The Ghost Husband; The Day Ten People Died at Red Lake; Kosovo Refugees

Frederica, the Aging Flamenco Dancer, Arrives at the Eastern European ResortThe Fruit; Inspected by Number 5; Makinac Island/Spring Melt; ACT 3; Adrift; Chinook, Montana/1992; Frankie in the Attic; Love Poem; Last Night's Dream/Another Love Poem; Little Witches; Japanese Garden; Wichita Cockroaches; When Pigs Fly/Kurt's Diary; Eating Sushi with Robert Bly and Sam Hamill; Hand Sisters; Early Spring/Dark Lake, 1997; Returning to Lake Superior; At the Anderson Center; Notes; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-9823545-9-2

OCLC:

804664749