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Autore: |
Duhamel Denise
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Titolo: |
The star-spangled banner [[electronic resource] /] / Denise Duhamel
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Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (79 p.) |
Disciplina: | 811/.54 |
Soggetto topico: | Interpersonal relations |
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 ""José, 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The star-spangled banner ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8093-8332-2 |
1-299-05087-5 | |
0-585-09830-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820540803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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