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Kiss off : poems to set you free
Esselman, Mary D.
Adult Nonfiction PN6110.L6 K57 2003
Esselman, Mary D.
Adult Nonfiction PN6110.L6 K57 2003
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| Contents | Page |
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| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Harting: When Things Fall Apart | p. 1 |
| "Love" | p. 12 |
| "Fulfillment" | p. 13 |
| "We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye" | p. 14 |
| "Worked Late on a Tuesday Night" | p. 15 |
| "Crumbling Is Not an Instant's Act" | p. 17 |
| "Thursday, 11:00 A.M." | p. 18 |
| "The Pear" | p. 19 |
| "Barbie Doll" | p. 20 |
| "The Second Coming" | p. 22 |
| Hamlet II.ii. 270-279 | p. 24 |
| "Fight Song" | p. 25 |
| "Feeling Fucked Up" | p. 27 |
| "The Heart" | p. 29 |
| Hiding: When You Shut Down | p. 31 |
| "Red Onion, Cherries, Boiling Potatoes, Milk--" | p. 43 |
| "Wants" | p. 44 |
| "Returning to My Cottage" | p. 45 |
| "Hotel" | p. 46 |
| "Summer: 6:00 a.m." | p. 47 |
| "Plainsong" | p. 49 |
| "In a Hard Intellectual Light" | p. 52 |
| "A Room" | p. 54 |
| "The Fist" | p. 56 |
| "Embrace" | p. 57 |
| "Mutable Earth" | p. 58 |
| Reeling: When You Go Wild | p. 61 |
| "The Wave" | p. 74 |
| "Down, Wanton, Down!" | p. 75 |
| "To His Coy Mistress" | p. 77 |
| "The Nectarine Poem" | p. 80 |
| "Pub Poem" | p. 83 |
| "Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)" | p. 86 |
| "Equinox" | p. 87 |
| "Delight in Disorder" | p. 88 |
| "At the Gym" | p. 89 |
| Dealing: When You Face Facts | p. 91 |
| "The End and the Beginning" | p. 103 |
| "The Tropics in New York" | p. 106 |
| "Night on the Island" | p. 107 |
| "Lures" | p. 110 |
| "Waiting on Elvis, 1956" | p. 112 |
| "Those Winter Sundays" | p. 113 |
| "She Does Not Remember" | p. 114 |
| "The Dogs" | p. 115 |
| "The Layers Between Me" | p. 117 |
| "Purple Bathing Suit" | p. 119 |
| Excerpt from Paradise Lost | p. 121 |
| Healing: When You Find Yourself | p. 123 |
| "Better" | p. 134 |
| "Petit Dejeuner" | p. 135 |
| "Not-Yet" | p. 136 |
| "The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students" | p. 138 |
| "Homecoming" | p. 140 |
| "Navy Barbie" | p. 141 |
| "why some people be mad at me sometimes" | p. 143 |
| "The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm" | p. 144 |
| "Danse Russe" | p. 146 |
| "The Suitor" | p. 147 |
| "Chai 1924-2000" | p. 148 |
| Believing: When You Stay Strong | p. 151 |
| "Sadie's Poem" | p. 163 |
| "To a Poor Old Woman" | p. 164 |
| "Filling Station" | p. 165 |
| "A Blessing" | p. 167 |
| "Pied Beauty" | p. 169 |
| "The Pope's Penis" | p. 170 |
| "Immigrant Picnic" | p. 171 |
| "We Take Our Children to Ireland" | p. 174 |
| "Emily Dickinson and Elvis Presley in Heaven" | p. 176 |
| "Sister Lou" | p. 178 |
| "Here" | p. 181 |
| Afterword | p. 183 |
| Biographies of Contributors | p. 187 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 199 |
| About the Editors | p. 201 |
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