This country of mothers
Record details
- ISBN: 9781299050860
- ISBN: 1299050867
- ISBN: 0809390272
- ISBN: 9780809390274
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 80 pages)
remote - Publisher: Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2001.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | How It Begins -- Kitchens: 1959 -- Conception -- The Cold War: My Parents as Newlyweds -- My Mother Gives Birth -- Correcting Memory -- The Knocking Tree -- Recalling the Leg -- Nights in Tijuana -- Learning to Say No at the Immaculate Conception High School -- First Time -- What We Didn't Talk about at Fifteen -- My Mother Refuses to Wear Glasses -- My Grandfather Returns after Many Years -- How I Fear God -- Coming Home at Seventeen -- My Mother's National Geographics -- The Annunciation: Our Mothers at Church -- After Giving Birth, I Recall the Madonna and Child -- First Pregnancy -- Satisfying the God of Statistics -- Preschool -- Seventy Degrees in December -- Checkup after the Operation to Evacuate the Dead Fetus -- You Found Me in the Dry Tub, Fevered, Whispering of God -- After the Miscarriage -- Mother as Judas -- The Pill -- Language Lab, Paris, 1989 -- After Eleven Days of Rain -- The Cow Remembers Urus -- Pharaoh's Dream -- My Daughter's Sight -- My Daughter, like Eve, Realizes Nakedness -- Cesarean -- What the Poets Could Have Been -- Blurbs -- Dear Mr. Houdini -- The Assumption: Mary's Heart in the Guinness Book of World Records -- What I Told the Jehovah's Witness -- Discussing Sorrow with Jesus -- My Cousin Attempts Suicide in Gander Hill Prison -- Jesus in the Mail -- On My Husband's Thirty-Third Birthday -- Living Where They Raised Me -- The Beginning -- The Dead Must Disappear or Join a Story -- My Mother among Bears -- My Mother Prays to Dream of Her Dead Father -- My Mother in the Garden. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Language Note: | English. |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Mothers -- Poetry Mothers and daughters -- Poetry |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Poetry. |