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- Admit One: An American Scrapbook
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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Praise for Martha Collins:
“A dazzling poet whose poetry is poised at the juncture between the lyric and ethics, Martha Collins has addressed some of the most traumatic social issues of the twentieth century . . . in supple and complex poems. . . .[N]o subject is off limits for her piercing intellect.”
—Cynthia Hogue, AWP Chronicle
“A dazzling poet whose poetry is poised at the juncture between the lyric and ethics, Martha Collins has addressed some of the most traumatic social issues of the twentieth century . . . in supple and complex poems. . . .[N]o subject is off limits for her piercing intellect.”
—Cynthia Hogue, AWP Chronicle
Table of Contents
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- Fair: 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair Louisiana Purchase Exposition
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- pp. 3-4
- Made / Made of
- p. 5
- On the Other Side
- p. 11
- Ota Benga, Part One
- pp. 12-13
- Physical Culture
- p. 16
- Exposition / Expose / Exposure
- pp. 17-18
- ZOO: The Bronx, 1906
- St. Louis Zoo
- p. 21
- Ota Benga, Part Two
- p. 22
- Ota Benga, Part Three
- pp. 27-29
- Animal / Anima
- p. 30
- Missing / Missing
- p. 32
- FITTER: 1916
- Where They Lived
- p. 35
- Ota Benga, Part Four
- p. 36
- Race / Race
- p. 38
- Better Babies
- p. 39
- Some Eugenics
- pp. 41-42
- Alien, Part One
- p. 48
- Fitter Families
- p. 49
- Carrie Buck, Part One
- pp. 51-52
- FEWER: 1924
- Alien, Part Two
- p. 58
- Pass / Pass / Pass
- p. 59
- Carrie Buck, Part Two
- pp. 60-62
- Racial Integrity
- pp. 63-64
- Alien, Part Three
- p. 68
- Once We Were
- pp. 69-70
- Re-enactments
- p. 72
- Admit / Admit
- p. 74
- Postscript
- Postscript One
- pp. 77-78
- Postscript Two
- p. 79
- Postscript Three
- p. 81
- Exit / Exeunt
- pp. 82-84
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 85-94
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822981299
Related ISBN(s)
9780822964056
MARC Record
OCLC
944403044
Pages
99
Launched on MUSE
2016-03-15
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016