Stray home : poems / by Amy M. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Amy M., 1966-

Series:

Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 17.

Vassar Miller prize in poetry series ; no. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single women--United States--Poetry.

Single women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2009. With poems that combine the self-scrutiny of Philip Larkin with the measure of Elizabeth Bishop, Amy M. Clark burnishes her first collection, Stray Home, with exquisite understatement and formal control. Sweeter than Larkin and more intimate than Bishop, these poems address the suppressed pain and shame of living as a childless woman in a world of mothers, the dissociation attendant on depression and fraught family relationships, and the search for a sense of belonging in the face of dislocation. Stray Home cuts deeply to discover the buried emotions and insights universal to all suffering and compassionate human beings.

Contents:

I. Scope

Arc

Do you want to hold the baby?

Girl with a playbill

Monkey with a cup

Looking for Z;

Night rescue

First thing this morning

Come dusk

The art teacher's wife

Calla lily. II. Faces at a play

Dumb

Name pinned to the skin of a mole

Catch

Anniversary

Stray home

Carsick on the way to the coast, with Mary and her daughter in the infant seat

Seesaw

Safebox. III. How to be the lady of the house

The donut shop

Postcards from the best women friends of our men

After being elsewhere, upon returning

The grizzly bear in February

The Lafayette Square holiday mansion tour

Duet under glass

Daughter for my prayer. IV. Pink cotton panties & the bonsai tree

Shudder

Embrace on the neck

The roasted-corn man of Golden Hill

Neighbors

Apology to the foster child on her tenth birthday

Shell pink clock

Our friends in Minnesota

Winter & the Santa Ana winds

Why we love our dogs.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

"2009 Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry"

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57441-361-9

OCLC:

794700551