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Title

Portrait of the artist as a white pig : poems / Jane Gentry.

Author

Gentry, Jane.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Description

x, 81 pages; 23 cm

Contents

A human house -- The concept of morning -- Roofer -- Desire -- From my attic window -- Among the stations of the cross on the grounds of Taylor Manor Nursing Home -- Waking up, in May -- Riddle -- The news -- Diana, of a certain age, takes a bath -- The song of the furnace -- Realty -- November -- Sam's club in winter -- Hunting for a Christmas tree after dark -- My life story -- In the house with the red roof -- The red taffeta dress -- Their bed -- My mother's rooms -- Leaving the shades up -- Ultrasound -- Aubade -- To my grandson, in the womb, on Washington heights -- Skating -- Your company -- Sitting with Aunt Mary in Hospice -- The reading lamp -- Eating a pear from the tree my father planted thirty-one years ago -- One summer in the life of my mother -- Portrait of the artist as a white pig -- At Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, in January -- Taking the train from Maysville to New York -- The light at the end of the tunnel -- Utopia : an idyll -- Rose week in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden -- On the eve of war with Iraq -- My two daughters in Paris -- Nike of Samothrace -- Les Jardins du Luxembourg -- Leaving the sidewalk cafe -- Portrait of Sue Richards as a young girl -- The clouds, my mother -- Watching stars -- Parable of the reverse sunset -- First kiss -- April in your garden -- Nearby -- By your small lake -- At harmony landing -- Penelope's night out -- Sleeping with you -- The traveler -- The chain : a true account.

ISBN

• 0807131695 (alk. paper)
• 0807131709 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005034824
• 9780807131695
• 9780807131701

OCLC

• OCM62430802
• SCSB-5278750

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries