Research Catalog

Title

Persephone in America / Alison Townsend.

Author

Townsend, Alison.

Publication

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Description

xiii, 110 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Uniform Title

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

Persephone in America -- Unexpected Harvest -- The Addict -- Splinter -- Persephone at the Mall -- The Favorite -- Spin -- Biology -- At the Hairdresser: Persephone Reads Elle Magazine -- Persephone, Pretending -- The Cutter -- What I Never Told You About the Abortion -- A Winter s Tale -- Demeter Faces Facts -- In the Luray Caverns: Persephone Writes Home -- Mud Poem -- A Bottle of Jean Nate -- Beauty Lesson -- My Mother and the Snake -- Persephone Remembers: The Bed -- Hospital Corners -- Finding Hell on the Map -- American Chippendale-Style Mahogany Secretary Desk, 1845-1870 -- Seeing the Virgin Mary at the University of Wisconsin Library Mall -- Mother-Daughter Portrait -- The Meadow -- Jane Morris Poses for Rossetti s Prosperine (1874) -- Forty-five This Spring -- And Still the Music -- Red Words -- Between Green Flannel Sheets Splattered with Portuguese Roses -- Blue Willow: Persephone Falling -- Trichotillomania -- Accepting the Flowers I Did Not Choose -- Persephone Under -- Love s Apprentice -- Blood Elegy: Persephone at Midlife -- Ruby Slippers -- Reading a Famous Woman Poet s New Book, also about Persephone, on the First Day of Spring -- Asparagus Season -- Each Spring the Bloodroot -- Ode to the Pomegranate -- If I Called You River -- Persephone at the Crosswalk.

ISBN

• 9780809328963 (alk. paper)
• 0809328968 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008031313
• 40016570296

OCLC

• 234234186
• ocn234234186
• SCSB-5465292

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries