Eve's striptease /
""You have to admire a poet who can take an onion, the flu, houseguests, migraines, and a nurse's coat and turn them in to poetry. Of course, Kasdorf is using the concrete to get a deeper things: there's an amazement at life in these poems, and a hard-headed determination to make...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- First gestures
- Freight
- The sun lover
- Sinning
- Flu
- Ghost
- Pass
- Bulbs
- Onion, fruit of grace
- The knowledge of good and evil
- Eve's striptease
- Mother love
- The secrets of marriage
- Storm
- Word to measure space
- Definition: to fix
- Sixth anniversary
- The new place
- Wife of a resident alien
- Lesson of hard-shelled creatures
- Living large
- Before dawn in October
- Our last neighborhood in Brooklyn
- Loud
- Leaving Brooklyn
- The use of allusion
- Map of the known world
- July, 1969
- Ladies night at the Turkish and Russian baths
- Coat of a visiting nurse
- Lymphoma
- Flammable skirts recalled
- Answer
- Why I ran
- To honor the dead
- How it looks from South Brooklyn
- House guest confession
- Brooklyn Bridge showing painters on suspenders
- The streak
- Migraines
- Learning the names
- How my father learned English
- Letter to Timothy Russell from Lewisburg
- Black dress
- Eve's curse
- Thinking of certain Mennonite women
- Boustrophedon
- First bird
- Flying lesson.
