Piece by piece : selected prose /
From a Corfu classroom to an Accra art gallery to a spa in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, poet Rachel Hadas's prose ranges through space. Recalling a 1950's New York City childhood and long-departed parents, she reaches back in time. And since all the many-faceted work here engages wit...
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Philadelphia :
Paul Dry Books,
2021.
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| Edition: | First Paul Dry Books edition. |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Close to Home
- Mater Sagax
- Humble Herb Is Rival to Prozac
- Classics
- Talking to My Father
- Lessons of Poetry
- This Is What I Was Meant to Do
- II. Storage and Retrieval
- A Letter to J. D. Salinger
- Waiting with Kipling
- The Honors Student, the Plagiarist, and the Fan
- Use a Brand-New Word Three Times
- Through the Smoke of This One
- Fabric in Ghana
- One April Day
- Vanishing in Plain Sight
- The Trembling Web and the Storage Facility
- III. Remembering The Future / Jessica Greenbaum
- IV. Translations and Transitions
- Takes on Arcadia
- A Classroom in Corfu
- Philotimo in the Beauty Parlor
- The Truth of Two
- Nakedness Is My End
- White Polka Dots
- Translated Objects
- V. Poetic Knowledge
- Don't Get Hysterical, Get Historical
- and Mythical
- Poetic Knowledge
- What Good Will This Knowledge Do You? Four Poets on Illness
- An Ecstasy of Space
- Subterranean Forces
- Voices of Elders
- Three Steps Down.