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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778981703321

Autore

Duhamel Denise

Titolo

The star-spangled banner [[electronic resource] /] / Denise Duhamel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8093-8332-2

1-299-05087-5

0-585-09830-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 p.)

Collana

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Interpersonal relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Pages; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ~ *; Yes; The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope; Lines; The Little I Know about Eyes; Happy Ending; Stranger; Grace; How Much Is This Poem Going to Cost Me?; ~ * *; Bangungot; Insomnio; The Therapist's Funeral: for Rodney Godden; White Virgin: a statue of Mary in Toledo, Spain; Art; Nick at Nite; ~ * * *; Where to Find Feminine Protection While Traveling in a Foreign Country; Cockroaches; Fairy Tale; Surgery; Scared about What Was There; ~ * * * *; I'm Dealing with My Pain; Tulip; House-Sitting; Sex with a Famous Poet

Skipping BreakfastAnother Poem Called ''Sphincter''; June 13, 1995; ~ * * * * *; A Kissing; Noctilucae; Husband as a Second Language; The Star-Spangled Banner; Playa Naturista; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American.  In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" as ""JoseĢ, can you see?"", which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what ""yes"" means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's ""Nick at Nite"" with a husband who grew up in the