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- Running like a Woman with Her Hair on Fire
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Martina Newberry's collection of poems, Running Like a Woman with Her Hair on Fire, is a book of memory, of urgency, of regret, of assertion, of the mysticism in everyday experiences. It is an authentic celebration of a life being lived every moment.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- Dedication
- pp. 7-9
- The Orchard
- pp. 10-11
- John, to the Seven Churches
- pp. 11-12
- Something I am Feeling Needs Words
- pp. 12-13
- A Reckoning
- pp. 13-14
- Praying on All Fours
- pp. 14-15
- A Yellow Truck
- pp. 15-16
- The Woman Who Read the Bible
- pp. 16-17
- My Mirror on the Table There
- pp. 20-21
- I Shall Only Look Up and Say . . .
- pp. 21-22
- About the Day You Were Born
- pp. 22-23
- James Dean’s Shadow
- pp. 24-25
- Kiss of the Vampire
- pp. 28-29
- Thinking About What Might Happen
- pp. 29-30
- In A Terrible Country
- pp. 30-31
- On the First Day of October
- pp. 31-32
- The River Knew
- pp. 32-33
- Something I Know About
- pp. 33-34
- A Chill Over the Water
- pp. 34-35
- You Can Never Be Sure
- pp. 36-37
- The Rain, the River
- pp. 39-40
- Hearst Beach
- pp. 40-41
- Immutable Truths
- pp. 41-42
- Politically Correct in America
- pp. 42-43
- Blam in Gilead
- pp. 44-45
- When You Saw Her, You Knew . . .
- pp. 46-47
- Bill’s Christmas Card: 1967
- pp. 47-48
- WITH THE KOI
- pp. 52-53
- At the Yellow Cafe
- pp. 54-55
- Gay Repartee
- pp. 56-57
- Tough Nuts
- pp. 58-59
- Spin the Bottle
- pp. 60-61
- A Cycle of Movements
- pp. 64-66
- Her Journey from the Clinic
- pp. 67-68
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597097116
Related ISBN(s)
9781597090155
MARC Record
OCLC
607747159
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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