| Descript |
viii, 54 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
[Southern messenger poets] |
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Southern messenger poets.
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| Note |
Series statement on jacket. |
| Contents |
Divorce epistles ; Aftermath ; Photograph : Farm Auction ; Rent ; Surface hunting ; Waxwing ; Chimney Fire ; Eight Ball ; Pitching Horseshoes ; The last Christmas ; Metaphor ; Possessions ; A Bird in the house ; The Spanish lover ; Frame -- Breaking up the house ; My Grandmother's plot in the family cemetery ; The change ; Breaking Up the house ; House-sitting ; Second bearing, 1919 ; Drought ; The Audubon collection ; The practice cage ; Atlas ; Migraine : aura and aftermath -- Late wife : letters to Kent ; Artifact ; The hospital ; Pond turtle ; Daybook ; The cough ; The X-rays ; Corrective ; Homecoming ; Driving glove ; Furnace ; Stringed instrument collection ; Old English ; Leave no trace ; Buying the painted turtle. |
| Summary |
A collection of poems in which the poet reminisces about the life she led with her first husband, describes the healing she went through after her divorce, and expresses her feelings toward her second husband, whose former wife died of cancer. |
| Subject |
Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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| ISBN |
0807130834 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780807130834 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0807130842 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780807130841 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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