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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Flenniken’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Iowa Review, Mid-American Review, Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. She was named Washington State Poet Laureate in 2012. Coeditor and president of Floating Bridge Press, a publisher of Washington State poets, Flenniken has taught poetry through Writers in the Schools and other arts agencies. Visit Kathleen Flenniken's website for more information. Klappentext A series of poems about ordinary women piecing together their own significance. Zusammenfassung "A little voice sings/from the back of the auditorium/of my throat. Aren't all of us/waiting to be discovered?" Here, the poet's answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but tuned to the incidental music of daily life. Inhaltsverzeichnis ix Acknowledgmentsi Minor Characters3 The League of Minor Characters4 It's Not You, It's Me5 The International House of Pancakes6 lost coat, pls call8 The Nuns' Remains9 Map of the Marriage Bed10 How to Read This Story to Your Children12 Elisabeth Reads Poetry14 Life and Art15 Passing for Mormon17 No, you have the wrong number18 What I Learn Weeding19 Everybody Wang Chung Tonight20 Calling Up Ghosts21 A Middle Child is Born23 The Physiology of Joyii Minor Celebrities27 Graphology28 The Minor Celebrities29 Words drift down on Virgil Suarez30 Sarah Chang plays violin31 Pantoum for Jane Goodall32 Edna St. Vincent Millay's Husband33 Built Like That34 What I Saw35 Conversation with a Sensualist36 Dust37 Lessons in Trigonometry38 Colonel Mustard Between Games39 Sea Monster41 Shampoo42 Gil's Story44 If We Could Live Here46 The Beauty of the Curve48 Sotto Voceiii Fame53 Fireball55 Preservation57 One Night59 Natural History60 The Sound of a Train61 My father invented the calendar62 My Mother's Biographies63 Woman Reading64 Murder Mystery65 Reading Hamilton's Biography of Robert Lowell66 Anaïs Nin on the Sales Table68 Miss Marianne Moore Takes a Tango Lesson69 To Ease My Mind71 Two Dreams of Infi nity72 An Informal Visitation73 The New Language74 Prayer Animals...
