Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral
Publication Year: 2012
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
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pp. ix-x
The Pearl
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pp. 1-2
Part I
The Door Flies Open
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pp. 5-
Nocturnal
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pp. 6-7
This Time We’ll Go to Kentucky Fried Chicken
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pp. 8-
Coney Island, 1977
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pp. 9-10
The Blue Dress with the Daisies
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pp. 11-
We Move to a House Where He Never Lived
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pp. 12-13
The Goose Girl
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pp. 14-15
Penny Poker
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pp. 16-
May 18, 1980
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pp. 17-18
When She Married Him
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pp. 19-
“A Woman Was Raped Here”
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pp. 20-21
Cecilia
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pp. 22-
After the Hysterectomy
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pp. 23-
Elegy with Carousel and Doorknob
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pp. 24-
Cefalu
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pp. 25-26
Ars Poetica
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pp. 27-28
Part II
The Deaf Girls
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pp. 31-
Hide and Seek
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pp. 32-33
Donut Parade
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pp. 34-35
Flight
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pp. 36-37
Muddy Waters
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pp. 38-
Mr. Birdsell, Room 108
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pp. 39-
Even Though I Know the Door to Our Compartment Won’t Lock
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pp. 40-
Salt of the Earth
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pp. 41-42
Wyoming
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pp. 43-44
Seatac
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pp. 45-46
In Paris Women Walk in the Dark
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pp. 47-48
July
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The Big Dipper
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pp. 50-
Menlo
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pp. 51-52
The Flower Horses
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pp. 53-
Paper Clothes
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pp. 54-
Watching Oksana
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pp. 55-56
Part III
Merge
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pp. 59-60
Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral
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pp. 61-62
Long Distance
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pp. 63-64
You Flew across the Map
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pp. 65-66
For the Bible Tells Me So
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pp. 67-68
Something about Winning
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pp. 69-70
Community College
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pp. 71-72
The Little Mermaid, the Long Version
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pp. 73-74
For Matthew, Who Doesn’t Love the Sea
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pp. 75-76
The House on North Stevens
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pp. 77-
How to Be Sad
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pp. 78-
At the Chicago Art Institute, My Mother Tells Me to Write a Poem about Jeannette
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pp. 79-83
About a Baby
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pp. 84-85
Trying to Contact Neil Diamond
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pp. 86-88
Acknowledgments
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pp. 89-90
Many thanks to the editors of the publications in which some of these poems first appeared: Bellingham Review, “Seatac” and “July”; Blue Earth Review, “Cecilia,” “Cefalu,” and “Ars Poetica”; Cincinnati Review, “Wyoming”; Cold Mountain Review, “The Pearl”; Crab Creek Review, “Flight”; ...
E-ISBN-13: 9780822978442
E-ISBN-10: 082297844X
Print-ISBN-13: 9780822962151
Print-ISBN-10: 0822962152
Page Count: 104
Publication Year: 2012
Series Title: Pitt Poetry Series
Series Editor Byline: Ed Ochester
