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- FINE DAY FOR A MIDDLE CLASS MARRIAGE
- Book
- 1996
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
"Pearson's poetry astonishes— her range is wide and profound. She explores the loss, the mundane, and quirkiness of life with passionate joy. Her skillful images and wry tone linger, encouraging you to reread her poems— to put yourself inside her poems, inside the very essence of what it means to be woman, to be human. A stunning and highly enjoyable collection!" —Jewell Rhodes
Table of Contents
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- Section I. Prints
- Gray Pigeons
- pp. 13-14
- The Hideout
- pp. 14-15
- Prints Of My Father
- pp. 15-16
- Fryman Canyon Chaparral
- pp. 16-18
- Feel The Clay
- pp. 19-21
- El Monte Theater
- pp. 22-23
- Fury In The Kitchen
- pp. 24-25
- Plug Up The Ducts
- pp. 25-26
- Mixed Metaphors
- pp. 26-27
- Supper’s Ready
- pp. 27-28
- Passion In Santa Monica
- pp. 28-29
- I Killed The Honeysuckle
- pp. 32-33
- Election Year Issues
- pp. 34-35
- The Day Anne Died
- pp. 36-37
- The Woman Who Waited For The Prince
- pp. 38-39
- Section II. Salvation
- My Father’s Metal Nickels
- pp. 45-47
- Warts And Family Photographs
- pp. 48-49
- Remembering Regularity And All-Bran
- pp. 50-51
- Rain Forest Jungle Of Tomato Worms
- pp. 52-53
- Searching For Mother
- pp. 54-55
- Mother’s Hands Rumble Like Earth
- pp. 56-57
- How I Became A Saint
- pp. 62-63
- Things I Should Not Write About
- pp. 63-64
- 21 Rules For Getting To Therapy
- pp. 64-65
- Section III. Orange Bags On The Freeway
- 2. January 28, 1986, the accident
- pp. 68-69
- 3. Trying to abolish orange bags
- pp. 69-70
- 4. There was one
- pp. 69-71
- 5. Speeding
- pp. 70-72
- 7. Still driving
- pp. 70-71
- 8. The line-up
- pp. 71-76
- 9. Near the veteran’s graveyard
- pp. 71-77
- 10. Evolution of religion
- pp. 72-78
- 11. Saint in a bag
- pp. 72-79
- 15. The hitchhikers
- pp. 74-75
- 16. Orange tree in the rain
- pp. 75-87
- 17. Losing things
- pp. 75-76
- Section IV. Canyons Of The Body
- The Bliss Of Sharing A Life
- pp. 80-93
- Twenty Years After
- pp. 81-94
- After The Happily Ever After
- pp. 86-99
- In A Former Life
- pp. 87-100
- The Blessings
- pp. 88-89
- Making Peace With Potato Salad
- pp. 90-93
- Wishing On A Sonogram
- pp. 94-95
- About the Author
- p. 109
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597097833
Related ISBN(s)
9781888996005
MARC Record
OCLC
868219298
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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