She took off her wings and shoes : poems /
Suzette Marie Bishop teaches writing at Texas A & M International University. This will be her first full-length book, though she's published a chapbook and many individual poems in national poetry journals. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, Ms. Bishop's credits include publicati...
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| Language: | English |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | May Swenson Poetry Award series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Alicia Ostriker
- 1. Do Not Drive into Smoke. Reaching for Your Hair
- Disruptions
- Elegant Shrimp in Champagne Sauce
- My Dream House
- House-Sitting
- Knowing Objects Will Outlast Them
- My Gown is a Momentary Outline
- Dragons
- The Bat
- One Summer
- Exit Interview
- Melinda
- Horrorscope
- Graveyard
- Visiting Relatives
- Mirror and Sword Trick
- In the Holy Spirit Research Center
- Least Terns
- Bloodstone
- Water Moccasin
- Anasazi Bowl
- Do Not Drive into Smoke
- Wedding Triptych
- Cool Wagons & Bone Chandeliers
- Through the Corridor
- Departing Iceland
- 2. As Good There as Here to Burn. At the Ramada Inn with Ruth and Esther
- Emitting a Sound
- Conversation with Anne Truitt
- The Conservator
- Purple Gloxinia
- Hannah Höch
- Beneath Eva Hesse's Fiberglass Veil
- Photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- The Ghost of Christina Rossetti
- As Good There as Here to Burn
- 3. She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
- She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes (a long poem).