In this Book
- A Walk in Victoria's Secret: Poems
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
- Series: Southern Messenger Poets
With A Walk in Victoria's Secret, Kate Daniels crafts a bold, brassy, yet delicate vision of a woman's growth. Imbued with a unique poetic voice that is utterly feminist, these poems possess a fiery intensity for those abuses no woman can ever quite recover from, but also reveal the loving, forgiving temperament of the mother no woman can do without. From the title poem's unapologetic celebration of the breast to a belated apology to the girl who integrated her elementary school, to the awkward juxtaposition of elderly and young women in a gynecologist's office on September 11, 2001, Daniels provides a rich array of meditations on what it means to be a woman in our time. Buoyant and entertaining, singular in style, and exuberant in language, A Walk in Victoria's Secret offers an intimate look at women's experiences.
Table of Contents
- 1
- The Figure Eight
- pp. 12-13
- The Pedicure
- pp. 14-17
- Shampoo Girl
- pp. 18-19
- The Polack
- pp. 20-22
- Homage to Calvin Spotswood
- pp. 26-29
- Dogtown, 1957
- pp. 33-34
- Cigarettes and Matches
- pp. 35-36
- The Divorce
- pp. 38-39
- Beans on Toast
- pp. 40-41
- When I Was the Muse
- pp. 42-43
- The Hatching
- pp. 44-46
- 2
- Sheet: A Psychology
- pp. 50-53
- Square Egg
- pp. 55-56
- Late Apology to Doris Haskins
- pp. 57-58
- At the Gynecologist
- pp. 59-60
- Cultural Diversity
- pp. 61-62
- Shotgun Face
- pp. 63-65
- The Noise of the Jews
- pp. 66-67
- A History of Hair
- pp. 68-69
- Eschatology
- pp. 71-73
- The Psychoanalyst’s Daughter
- pp. 75-76
- The Writer
- p. 77