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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464616203321

Autore

Brown Stephanie <1961->

Titolo

Domestic interior / / Stephanie Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

0-8229-9073-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (96 p.)

Collana

Pitt Poetry Series

Disciplina

811.608

Soggetti

American poetry - 21st century

Poetry - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. Neighbors""; ""I Observe This Morphic Field""; ""Domestic Interior""; ""Private School""; ""Bougainvillea""; ""Neighbors in Their Own Bunkers""; ""How Could We Decorate a Haunted House?""; ""Calm Down!""; ""Library""; ""Saying Good-bye to the World War II Generation""; ""No Irish Need Apply""; ""Massachusetts""; ""II. Education""; ""Liking Something Is Not Enough""; ""Diagnosis: Psychosis""; ""Time, Waste of""; ""See, e.g., Hildegarde, Fatima, Blake, McLuhan""; ""Invective""; ""Prescription Pills""; ""Snobs""; ""Marble Obelisk""; ""Education""; ""III. Folie Deux""

""Pension, Venezia""""Ten Years""; ""The Temper""; ""The Alcoholic and the Ball and Chain""; ""Legal Separation""; ""John Barleycorn""; ""After the End, Hope for the Beginning""; ""Peace""; ""IV. Not Too Serious""; ""Self-Portrait at the End of the First Half of My Life""; ""Not Too Serious""; ""The Staff Lounge""; ""The Divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Moore""; ""Camp""; ""The Satanists Next Door""; ""Supervision""; ""Husbandry""; ""Dolphins""; ""Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane""; ""The Family Jewels""; ""V. The Mother""; ""Hope for the Hopeless""; ""Indoors""

""The Devouring Father""""Keeping""; ""Coloring Book""; ""St. Dymphna""; ""Black and White""; ""The Abyss Stares Back at You""; ""The World Will Ask for Your Greed, Envy, and Sloth""; ""Good-bye""; ""Souls



in Purgatory""; ""The Mother Becomes the Mother of Herself as Well""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""

Sommario/riassunto

The poems in Domestic Interior describe the private and sometimes secret spaces of marriage, parenthood, and knowledge.