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The crooked inheritance : poems

Title
The crooked inheritance : poems / by Marge Piercy.
Author
Piercy, Marge.
Publication
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2006.

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Description
vii, 155 pages; 22 cm
Contents
A vision of horses and mules -- Tracks -- The crooked inheritance -- Seven horses -- Muttering -- Talking with my mother -- Swear it -- The streets of Detroit were lined with elms -- Dress up -- Minor street flooding is expected -- Motown, arsenal of democracy -- Portrait of the poet as a young nerd -- In the raw -- Phantom pain -- Pick a number -- Dislocation -- The closet of doom -- The Hollywood haircut -- Minor characters -- In praise of joe -- The special one -- The wind of saying -- The good, the bad and the inconvenient -- The orphan -- A long and busy night -- Buried -- February ground -- The stray -- The month of aspirin -- More than enough -- Intense -- How to make pesto -- Well done -- Hurricane warning -- The moon as cat as peach -- August like lint in the lungs -- Fagged out -- October nor'easter -- The dawn of nothing -- Metamorphosis -- Choose a color -- Choices -- Mighty big -- Security bottle -- Counting the after-math -- Your proper place -- Rotten -- Tanks in the streets -- Sur l'ile Saint Louis -- Deadlocked wedlock -- National monument : Castle Clinton -- I met a woman who wasn't there -- Morning's e-mail -- Absolutely safe -- Money is one of those things -- Less than you bargained for -- White night -- Buyer beware -- Sneak and peek -- In our name -- In St. Mawes -- Not knowing what I know -- The young and the stupid -- Many, many loves -- Bashert -- Bread dreams -- Train from Nice -- Famous lovers stumbled upon -- The house is empty -- The lived in look -- Making love new -- Hot heart -- Falling uphill -- At the core of loving, fear -- Mated -- The poetry of flesh -- The mystery of survival -- My grandmother's song -- The late year -- The birthday of the world -- Ne'ilah -- A horizon of ghosts -- In the sukkah -- Season of skinny candles -- The full moon of Nisan -- The seder's order -- Peace in a time of war -- The cup of Eliyahu.
ISBN
0307265072
LCCN
  • 2006041037
  • 9780307265074
OCLC
  • OCM64453495
  • SCSB-5285459
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries