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AcknowledgmentsThe Letter My Mother and a Few FriendsMother: Sun Bathing Widows Matriarchs Wife: Labor Isabel Night Terrors Hecuba Single Mother Sylvia Wife: The Good Daughter Wife: The Mirror Pleasure Lethe Ex-Wife: Infatuation Ex-Wife: Homesickness Sisters Soul Lover Girlfriend Woman Friend The Friend In the Land of the Inheritance Manufacturing The Basement Black Maid The Fight Cabbie Pick Up Game Between Assassinations

About the author

Alan Shapiro teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of a collection of essays, "In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination" (1993), and four previous books of poetry, including the award-winning "Happy Hour" (1987).

Summary

Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, from the mythic past to the abrasive intimacies of the present, this collection of poems charts the ways social and sexual identities are formed, threatened, altered and preserved.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Shapiro
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9780226750316
• ISBN: 978-0-226-75031-6
• No. of pages: 90
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 170 g
• Series: Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP); Phoenix Poets (CHUP)
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry