| Description |
159 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160. |
| Contents |
Family tree -- Saman -- Weeping willow -- Maple, oak, or elm -- Arborvitae -- Locust -- Last trees -- Intimations of mortality from a recollection in early childhood -- Anger & art -- El fotografo -- The red pickup -- Spic -- All-American girl -- Bellevue -- Abbot Academy -- By accident -- Vain doubts -- First muse -- Lunch hour, 1971 -- Heartland -- Bad-weather friends -- Sisterhoods -- Reunion -- My bottom line -- Love portions -- Fights -- Tone -- Hairbands -- Manholes -- Canons -- My kind of woman -- Museo del Hombre -- Ars politica -- Naming the animals -- The animals review pictures of a vanished race -- Why don't we ever see Jesus laughing? -- Addison's vision -- Winter storm -- The therapist -- Disappearing -- Gaining my self back -- That moment -- Signs -- Deathdays -- All's clear -- Now, when I look at women -- At the GYN -- Grand baby -- Life lines -- Spring, at last! -- Regreso -- In Spanish -- You -- Leaving English -- Meditation -- Aficionados -- Touching bottom -- Cleaning ladies -- Tom -- I dream of Allen Ginsberg -- Famous poet, years afterword -- Why I teach -- Undercover poet -- Small portions -- "Poetry makes nothing happen"? -- Reading for pleasure -- Direct address -- Passing on -- El sereno -- Looking up -- What we ask for -- What was it that I wanted? -- Keeping watch -- Why I write -- Did I redeem myself? |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of seventy-five poems that provide a narrative of a woman's inner life as she looks back from the perspective of middle age. |
| Subject |
Women -- Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Women. |
| Genre |
Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
1565124065 |
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9781565124066 |
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