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- Allegheny, Monongahela
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Using the confluence of rivers in Pittsburgh as a metaphorical lens, Allegheny, Monongahela probes the ruinous misalignment between the external and internal lives of two sisters and their childhood in Western Pennsylvania. Their complex and difficult relationship is the spine of the collection, told obliquely through a series of sonnets and ekphrastic meditations on the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe: the ways in which they separately navigate a violent family history that reverberates through their present and futures; their polarized impulses toward creativity and self-destruction. Rooted in a mutable, watery landscape that is not consistently recognizable, Allegheny, Monongahela investigates the collisions between the world and the self, the fissured identities that result, and the ways in which art may heal or fail to heal the cracks.
Table of Contents
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- Part II: The Sisters
- pp. 17-18
- Apple Family
- p. 19
- Eureka Vacuum
- p. 20
- Photo Album
- p. 21
- Invisible Childhood
- p. 22
- Cicada Year
- p. 23
- Camera Obscura
- pp. 25-26
- White Camellia
- p. 29
- The Funeral
- p. 30
- Death in the Family
- p. 31
- The Inheritance
- pp. 33-34
- Egyptology
- p. 35
- Heirloom Recipe
- p. 36
- Part IV: Leeward
- pp. 37-38
- The Red Single
- p. 39
- First Boyfriend
- p. 40
- Two Yellow Leaves
- p. 41
- Night-Blooming Cereus
- pp. 42-44
- Pittsburgh as Self-Portrait I
- pp. 47-48
- Coming into Opera
- pp. 52-54
- The Big One
- p. 55
- The Whiteout
- p. 56
- Part VI: One, Vanishing
- pp. 61-62
- Haute Couture
- p. 63
- The Good Girl
- p. 67
- Before You Wake
- p. 68
- Clam Shell
- p. 70
- Night from Above
- p. 73
- Dénouement
- p. 74
- The Experiment
- p. 75
- In O’Keeffe’s From The Lake, No. 3,
- pp. 80-82
- About the Author
- pp. 87-88
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597093736
Related ISBN(s)
9781597091343
MARC Record
OCLC
867793438
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No