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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bishop, Suzette
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, [2003]
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).