Mr. Stevens' Secretary : Poems / / Frances Schenkkan
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| Autore: |
Schenkkan Frances
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| Titolo: |
Mr. Stevens' Secretary : Poems / / Frances Schenkkan
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| Pubblicazione: | Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : , : University of Arkansas Press, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (86 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 813.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | American poetry--20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Harmonium -- Mr. and Mrs. -- Before Mr. Stevens -- Wasps -- She Encounters a Subtle Threat from the Future -- A Silence So Huge, There Is No "I" -- Mr. Stevens' Hat Band -- Her Father Sums Up -- Saturday Morning Gamble -- Asylum -- Her Husband's Worth -- First Spring in Hartford, 1937 -- Call and Response -- Grocery Store Parking Lot Reverie -- The Man with the Blue Guitar -- Mr. Stevens Inquires about Her Poetic Interests -- Elegy for Her Father-in-Law -- Upon Virginia Woolf's Death, 1941 -- An Awakening -- Mr. Stevens' Secretary Attempts a Fable -- Despite Her Sisters, She Keeps Up Hope -- Mr. Stevens' Secretary Considers Point of View -- Lady Bird -- Mr. Stevens and His Secretary Pause -- She Begins Short Story after Short Story -- After Hours -- The Absence of Romance in Her History -- What Else? -- Hartford Retreat -- A Daughter Sums Up -- She Takes a Letter to Mr. Henry Church, 1942 -- She Writes a Version of Herself into Exodus -- She's Hoping It Wasn't God -- When She Tired of the Bible -- Ideas of Order -- Mr. Stevens' Voice -- Mr. Stevens Will Pass -- Fidelity -- Marriage, Another Year -- Wonder Woman -- Pied a Terre -- O Savage Spirit -- Dead Cloud Season -- The News from Hartford -- Of Mere Being -- The Good Husband -- Marriage Therapy -- A Higher Form -- Back to Work -- Mr. Stevens and His Secretary, Five Years Later -- At His Service, 1955 -- Mr. Stevens' Secretary Transcribes a Poem -- Notes. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Finalist, 2017 Miller Williams Poetry Prize, edited by Billy Collins "Forces an eye-opening change in perspective." --Billy Collins In Mr.Stevens' Secretary , a fictional assistant to Wallace Stevens juggles her roles as a mother, a wife, a believer, and a working woman. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Mr. Stevens' Secretary |
| ISBN: | 1-61075-612-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910150291403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series