Research Catalog

Title

The beautiful : collected poems / Michelle Tea.

Author

Tea, Michelle.

Publication

San Francisco : Manic D Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

226 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Lesbians > Poetry
• San Francisco (Calif.) > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The beautiful -- McDonald's -- August-September -- Orca -- X-Girl -- Sell-out -- My pain -- The cruelty of strangers -- Unsmoking -- Biter -- Please -- Motorcycle funeral escort -- No girls -- Dive -- Ask me about my grandkids -- Oh God -- If you leave a woman flowers you'll probably scare her away -- 1/1/94 -- Letter to a masochist -- Suicide poem -- When I love my father -- Nanabelly -- Advice for the lovelorn -- Trying to move the mystery muscle -- How to reprogram your sexuality -- All these wounded women -- For Zanne for Zanne for Zanne -- We could be soulmates -- Three male abortion doctors -- Dragging the recycling out of the whorehouse -- Beach poem -- I am the light -- A brief night out in Tucson -- Ode to Chelsea -- And I still can't drive, really -- Just what the world needs -- St. Candace of the Incest Daughters -- Happy -- My life in 11 parts -- My mother getting divorced -- Johns who don't pay are rapists -- Dream of an ex-girlfriend -- Kathleen.
• (Cont.) The enormity of a beaten woman's blood -- How I lost my poetry -- Crabs are no big deal -- Peter and me -- How I lived my life in Tuscon -- What I know -- Bus story -- Right where you should be -- What happened -- Dysfunctional love poem for Ali -- The love for a mother is a tough, tough love -- For my Nana -- Go kiss go -- This doesn't happen often -- Hell is a state school -- This is about karma -- Fake duck/Bad trip -- We are girls -- I used to be straight -- Trick poem #2 -- My heart -- On learning my lover was a whore or It's all her fault -- That look -- Five reasons why I may die of cancer -- Emotional masochism or New Age message from beyond? -- People I've lost -- Another day at work -- Mr. Buzzle -- Lovesad -- Gazpacho -- Sushi -- Of course.
• (Cont.) A good thing to say -- I'm getting really sick of writing poems like this -- Percentages -- Laurie -- Nature video -- The city at the end of the world -- Impossible -- The Armageddon dance -- Pigeons -- My place in the world -- Last hope -- The biggest mistake I made all year -- Our Lady of Ridiculous Wishes -- Nice try -- The big-one's not coming -- What I mean by American -- Pickup trucks -- Cops -- Pastry tragedy.

ISBN

0916397890 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003021964

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library