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The daughters; poems.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berg, Stephen, 1934-2014
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1971]
Subjects:
Children > Poetry.
Literature, Modern > Stories, plots, etc.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism > Bibliography.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Parent and child > Poetry.
Children.
Literature, Modern.
Parent and child.
1900-1999
Bibliography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry.
Stories, plots, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Entering the body
  • "We exist"
  • It'll be much easier when the dead
  • Rising without names today
  • Will anyone love me if my dreams
  • Man
  • Suddenly I remember the holes
  • They can tell me the soul rises to its perch
  • Predict? Ask yourself why? Nibble a cheese sandwich? Know?
  • Everyone is glad when the doors wheeze open and their feet
  • Once I knew, nothing in the leaf could see me
  • I look up from the bottom
  • Soldiers keep a few important papers
  • He comes
  • I'm a pig, I'm a seagull
  • In the monument works
  • Desnos reading the palms of men on their way to the gas chambers
  • Morning
  • Everywhere
  • Shoes
  • Sleep
  • Milk
  • In the middle
  • Going upstairs to bed
  • People trying to love
  • Dreaming with a friend
  • To my friends
  • Wife talks to herself
  • Ollie, answer me
  • Eloise Simpson visits the east
  • Unnamed shapes
  • Uncle Will, the gardener
  • In the blood
  • Above all cattle
  • Between us
  • Fragment 122, Heraclitus
  • For the hole
  • Father invisible
  • And so on
  • In bed with Millie
  • As the days pass and darken
  • Mother political
  • On the steps
  • William Carlos Williams reading his poems
  • For the ghost of Li Po
  • Good
  • Crutches
  • Gooseberries
  • Heartache
  • Kiss
  • Late night conversation
  • After too much TV
  • Letter from a close friend
  • Sister Ann
  • Times
  • May 1970
  • Justice
  • What happens
  • Nick's photograph of Jeff, me and Arlene
  • Charlie's photograph of Millie
  • Wanting to be heavier
  • Second birth
  • On the handle of the whip
  • Exterminator on school
  • Away from the ocean
  • Return of black shag
  • Who's next
  • Not Kafka
  • Glimpse of the body shop
  • Directions for being Jesus
  • Dark lords who wait until the children exhaust themselves
  • Queen's triangle.