Research Catalog

Title

A girl goes into the woods : selected poems / Lyn Lifshin.

Author

Lifshin, Lyn

Publication

• New York, New York : NYQ Books, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Description

xvii, 396 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• American poetry

Note

• Includes title index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine-generated contents note: Black Velvet Girl -- But Instead Has Gone Into Woods -- I Was Four, In Dotted -- Some Afternoons When Nobody Was Fighting -- Nights It Was Too Hot To Stay In The Apartment -- Sitting In The Brown Chair With Let's Pretend On The Radio -- Being Jewish In A Small Town -- Going To The Catholic School -- Yellow Roses -- Dream Of The Pink And Black Lace, Just Like The Evening Gown -- Hair -- Fat -- Lips -- More Hair -- Writing Class, Syracuse Winter -- You Understand The Requirements -- Orals -- The No More Apologizing The No More Little Laughing Blues -- The Pearls -- I Wear My Hair Long -- All Night The Night Has Been -- Some Nights I'm Raisel Devora Dreaming Of Old Houses In Russia -- The Daughter I Don't Have -- Dream Of Ivy -- I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done To Me -- Drifting -- Why Aerograms Are Always Blue -- Not Quite Spring -- Cat Callahan -- Fitzi In The Yearbook -- In Spite Of His Dangling Pronoun -- Eating The Rain Up -- Lemon Sun, Saturday -- Light From This Turning -- On Another Coast -- All Afternoon We -- Lemon Wind -- Not Thinking It Was So With Yellow Flowers -- Lust Blowing Under The Door, Bright As Straw -- Moustache -- Even There -- In Venice, That November And December -- Venice Daphne Run Backwards -- Tentacles, Leaves -- Snow Fences, Wormwood -- Moving By Touch -- Nice -- November 1 Boogie -- Two Thursdays -- From The Mattress On The Floor Under The Flaming Sky Photos -- Glass -- The First Time -- Just After Forsythia, After Iced Rain -- The Child We Will Not Have -- He Said In The Hospital It -- Afternoons In The Blue Rain -- Kiss, Baby, The New Film -- Now You've Spent A Whole Month In The Ground -- White Trees In The Distance -- A Woman Goes Into The Cemetery -- Blue Sunday -- The Affair -- When I Was No Longer My Leather Jacket -- After 9 Days Of Cold Rain, Anything Blooming Trampled -- In A Notebook From Paris -- Having You Come Up After So Much Time -- Reading Those Poems Because I Can't Get Started Thinking Of The Phone Call That Came, That You Might -- Knockout Ballroom -- Late Winter Snow -- Today On The Metro -- Those Nights -- Going Home -- I Think Of My Grandfather -- If My Grandmother Could Have Written A Postcard To The Sister Left Behind -- If My Grandmother Would Have Written A Postcard To Odessa -- From The First Weeks In New York, If My Grandfather Could Have Written A Postcard -- 56 North Pleasant Street -- After The Visit -- Estelle, Star Stones -- The Cousin's Party -- My Father Tells Us About Leaving Vilnius -- Photograph -- The Other Fathers -- My Sister Wants Me To Come And Read Through Thirty Years Of Diaries -- The Cat's Yelp In Black Light -- My Sister Says But Doesn't Everyone Waste Their Life? -- Reading The Poem She Wrote That I Hadn't -- My Sister, Re-Reading 32 Years Of Diaries -- In Rexall's, Middlebury -- The Deeper You Go -- Photographs Of Mothers And Daughters -- 23 Hill Street -- There Were Spiders Over The Carriage -- 38 Main Street -- More Mother And Daughter Photographs -- My Mother And The Matches -- My Mother And The Bed -- My Mother And I Were -- In The Dream -- My Mother's Address Book -- My Mother Straightening Pots And Pans -- Barnstable, Two Years Ago -- Early Friday I Wondered, Suddenly, Was Cab Calloway Living, Was He Dead -- My Mother's Third Call On A Day Of Sleet And December Falling -- My Mother Listens To Classical Music -- Getting My Mother Ice -- My Mother Wants Lamb Chops, Steaks, Lobster, Roast Beef -- The Yahrtzeit Light -- Mint Leaves At Yaddo -- Taking My Mother To The Bathroom -- My Mother And The Lilacs -- Curling On The Bottom Of My Mother's Bed -- The Lilacs My Mother Never Got -- Like Some Ancient Chinese -- Looking For The Lost Voices -- Sleeping With Lorca -- My Afternoons With Dylan Thomas -- Rose Devorah -- Alberta Hunter -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Early Sunday Morning -- Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1941 -- The Woman In Love With Maps -- The Woman Who Loved Maps -- August 18, 1587 -- The Ice Maiden's 232nd SOS -- The Ice Maiden's 267th SOS -- Want Hair -- The Ice Maiden's Blues -- Jeanne Marie Plouffe -- She Waits Like Some Sharp Cheddar In The Pantry -- The Woman Who Loved Maps -- This December -- Even Before The Pond Froze -- The Mad Girl Takes The Radio Out Of The Room -- The Mad Girl Hums "I Got Along Without You Before I Met You" -- Barbie Hunts Thru Medical Books Looking For What Is Wrong With Her When She Sees Her Birth Date In A Book, Knows She Is Over 30 -- Navy Barbie -- Barbie Wonders About Buying A Coffin -- Marilyn Monroe Poses On Red Satin -- Jesus And Madonna -- Years Later Lorena Thinks Of The Penis She Had For A Day -- Condom Chain Letter -- In The Darkness Of Night -- War -- I Remember Haifa Being Lovely But -- She Said The Geese -- Black Rain, Hiroshima -- In The VA Hospital -- Seeing The Documentary Of The Liberation Of Bergen-Belsen -- I Got The Bucks Figure A Long Slow -- Like That -- It Was Like Wintergreen -- There Were Always Stars -- Treblinka -- She Said I Know It's Almost Midnight But I Wanted To Give You The Bare Skeleton -- You Take For Granted -- Who Held The Camera So Steadily, And Why? -- He's Moved Everything He Needs Into One Room -- Hearing Of Reagan's Trip To Bitburg -- If Hair Could Sift Down -- Gale Of The Sun, The Angels Don't Fly -- North Of Cottonwood -- Arizona Ruins -- Champlain, Branbury, The Lakes At Night -- New Hampshire -- Middlebury Poem -- Thirty Miles West Of Chicago -- Things That Shine In Quebec City As The Sun Falls -- Midwest -- Monet's Les Nympheas -- Violet Jelly -- Blue Sleighs -- September 26, 1996 -- Mid-November -- Late November (1) -- Geese At Midnight -- Like A Dark Lantern -- In The Rippled Ebony Cove -- Horses In The Snow -- Sleeping With Horses -- The Young Girl Dreams Of Escape -- When I Think Of Barbaro's Birth -- Late November (2) -- Heron On Ice -- Feeding Ducks, Grey November -- Geese On Ice -- On The Shortest Day Of The Year -- Downstairs The Dark Studded -- Cherry Blossoms In Darkness -- Reprieve -- It Goes On -- Please Nuzzle Sheets I've Left My Scent In -- Rose -- If Those Blossoms Don't Come -- Writer's Conference Brochure -- Fashion City -- When I See Sarah Jessica Parker Is Replaced By Joss Stone -- Isn't It Enough How It Slams Back? -- Do I Really Have To Write About What Seems Most Scary? -- You Can Read A Life Story In The Tattoo -- Old Boyfriends -- Letter -- How It Slams Back, A Letter Used As A Bookmark -- Remember When You Wondered What "It" Would Be Like? -- Haven't You Ever Wanted To Use The Word Indigo? -- Montmartre -- April, Paris -- The Way You Know -- Haven't You Ever Lusted For Those Red Shoes? -- Blue At The Table In The Hot Sun -- Child Prodigy's Time To Die, Something Great Mom Says -- Maho Bay, Near The Astrologer's Table -- Ring -- Haven't You Ever Wanted -- Fat Girls -- Bad Dream #279, June 22 -- Another Bad Dream -- How Can You Expect Me Not To Write About Death? -- How Can You Expect Me Not To Write About Death? -- Sultry, Humid, Running To The Metro -- The Woman On The Metro, Orange Line, Foggy Bottom -- Someone Is Looking For A Way Not To Do It -- After A Day Of Cold Rain -- My Cat's Got Spring In Her Body -- Better To Just Let It Go -- Music Hall -- Cove Point -- Horses -- Doormat -- It Wasn't Even Valentino But Tony Dexter, Made Up With Slick-Backed Hair, Eyes Of Soot -- Don't You Miss It, That -- After The Too-Blue Sky Day And The Blue Rising -- Comfort And Longing -- Here In Virginia, The Magnolias Are Already Losing Their Colour. Or, The Un-Affair -- Aren't There Mornings -- When I See She Is Reading Thursday -- Every Day Some People Are Going Home To See Who Is Dying -- Now Let's Say -- Haven't You Ever Taken That One Step? -- More Red Shoes -- When James Dean Said Die Young And Have A Beautiful Corpse -- Do You Ever Wonder About The Woman In Alfred Eisentaedt's Photograph "Victory Day, The Kiss" -- Don't You Sometimes, Even If You're In That -- The Belly-Dancing Skirt -- The Belly-Dancing Skirt (1) -- The Belly-Dancing Skirt (2) -- The Black Silk Skirt Falling -- Some Days -- In Seeing A Review Where My Early Poems Were Called Wild -- Spiritual -- If I Had A Daughter -- Have You Ever Gone Back -- When Death Could Come Fast Enough To Leave You As The Not-That-Young Woman In The Coffin With Chipped Purple Nails -- Have You Ever Looked At An Old Diary -- When I Think Of The Lions, Their Circle Around The Mewling Girl -- The Startling, Your Long E-Mail -- Haven't You Ever, Like I Have, Wondered, Seeing Alfred Eisenstaedt's Kiss Over And Over -- I Lift My Mother To The Commode -- Three Days Before My Mother's Birthday -- Forced Buds -- Facing Away From Where I'm Going On The Metro -- The Geranium -- After The Tsunami -- Dead Girls, Dying Girls -- The Dead Girls, The Dying Girls -- Dead Girls, Dying Girls -- With Everything Opening, Pears, Magnolias, Cherry Petals, Apple, Dogwood.

ISBN

• 9781935520320 (pbk.)
• 1935520326 (pbk.)

OCLC

859384105

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library