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

• Autore: Duhamel Denise
• 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.: 9910778981703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry