Research Catalog

Title

Backhand through the mother : poems / by Renee Norman.

Author

Norman, Renee, 1950-

Publication

Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education, c2007.

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Details

Description

ix, 93 p. : ill.; 19 cm.

Series Statement

Inanna poetry & fiction series

Uniform Title

Inanna poetry & fiction series

Subject

• Mothers and daughters > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Contents

Pt. I. Turning Point -- Poem as Home -- 4/4 Time in the Kitchen -- Prodigal Mother -- Daughters -- Happy Birthday! -- Shit Work -- Grade 7 Graduation -- Knife in My Heart -- Into This Poem -- Bird Watching -- Segments -- Costume -- Warm Blush -- Checking My Daughters at Midnight with Lotion on My Hands -- Elemental, My Dear Poodle (or Proof That One Can Try to Poem About Anything) -- Caught! -- Anatomy of an Evil -- Hannah's Child -- Mother Troll -- Absence -- Metal Flowers -- Bearing Witness September 12, 2001 -- When the Oldest Gets Her Drivers License at Last -- Performing: Adolescent Getting Ready for School -- First Night of Chanukah -- Car Keys -- Grade 12 Graduation -- Emptying the Nest (Eldest Daughter Moves Out, 2 to Go) -- So Who's Bulemic Here? -- Garage Sale -- Moth into Flame -- Between the Lines -- Pt. II. Snail Slipping Off a Leaf -- Backhand Through the Mother -- 4 Loads of Laundry -- Hybrid Clotheslines -- Oxen on the Roof -- Black Sheep -- Prayers for the Almost Dead -- More Prayers for the Almost Dead -- Crazed Cookies -- Summer Fragments -- Fred and Ginger at 80 -- Photograph -- Checkup -- Learning Death -- Literacy of Loss -- My Father's Pen -- Widows -- Legacy -- Snail Symmetry -- Eye of the Needle -- Apple Harvest -- Every 4200 Years -- Loving Others: the Finest Act, the Riskiest -- New Year: Restructuring My Fantasies -- Warm Spots -- Turning 50 -- Never Too Late -- Recipe for Reciprocation.

ISBN

9780973670998 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007702011

OCLC

141842702

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library