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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795653503321

Autore

Hart Gwen <1976->

Titolo

The Empress of Kisses : Poems / / Gwen Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Huntsville, Texas : , : Texas Review Press, , [2016]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©[2016]

ISBN

1-68003-089-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (59 pages)

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Generation X

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The empress of kisses: Spell -- The empress of kisses -- Life in the circus -- Tenth grade English -- On the perimeter -- Devotion -- Only you -- Bat in the house -- Flight of the six wild turkeys -- Messages -- The dead are with us -- Moving alone in the dark -- Training the dog -- Three -- Happiness -- Marginalia -- Birthday poem -- Love songs for Generation X: X marks the spot -- Time Machine, 1985 -- Challenger -- The girls' lavatory -- Light as a feather, stiff as a board -- Music education -- Junk necklaces -- Surviving the Oregon Trail -- If the shoe fits -- A kiss was a Polaroid picture -- Watching Molly Ringwald's mouth -- Nostalgia -- Thriller -- The last payphone -- Your heart is a Rubik's Cube -- Early introduction to Freud -- What lips! -- The PTL Club -- The needle jumps to red -- I forgot what a kiss is -- November 9th, 1989 -- Anniversary track -- Kissing in the rain: Kissing in the rain -- To summer -- Drought sonnet -- Eve names the kiss -- Origins -- Love note for Clark -- To Pygmalion -- Galatea comes to life -- Galatea alone -- Galatea and the kicking foot -- Narcissus after making love -- Enough -- If love is only chemistry.