Instructions for My Mother's Funeral (Pitt Poetry Series) by Laura Read - 2012-11-25

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Pittsburgh. 2012. November 2012. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822962151. Pitt Poetry Series. 89 pages. paperback. Cover photo by Troy Newell. Cover design by Joel W. Coggins. keywords: Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER - This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent move to a new house and a new life, a life in which she is always alert to the absences and danger but also a life in which she begins to see language as a kind of salvation. This section also develops the speaker's first knowledge of sex, primarily in the poems, 'The Goose Girl' and 'A Woman Was Raped Here.' The second section follows the speaker into adolescence and young adulthood, and these poems further explore the sexual violence in the world in which the speaker lives, and how this violence affects her own feelings toward sex and romantic love. In the third section,… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. Winner of the 2011 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Dorianne Laux This collection examines how the loss of a parent at a young age can color the way that child looks at the world even when the child is no longer a child.

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 72 pages. 9.00x0.40x6.00 inches.