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Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, from the mythic past to the abrasive intimacies of the present, this collection of poems charts the ways social and sexual identities are formed, threatened, altered and preserved.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments The Letter My Mother and a Few Friends Mother: Sun Bathing Widows Matriarchs Wife: Labor Isabel Night Terrors Hecuba Single Mother Sylvia Wife: The Good Daughter Wife: The Mirror Pleasure Lethe Ex-Wife: Infatuation Ex-Wife: Homesickness Sisters Soul Lover Girlfriend Woman Friend The Friend In the Land of the Inheritance Manufacturing The Basement Black Maid The Fight Cabbie Pick Up Game Between Assassinations

Mixed Company Volume 1996 Phoenix Poets

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 3/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226750309, 978-0226750309
      ISBN10: 0226750302

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, from the mythic past to the abrasive intimacies of the present, this collection of poems charts the ways social and sexual identities are formed, threatened, altered and preserved.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments The Letter My Mother and a Few Friends Mother: Sun Bathing Widows Matriarchs Wife: Labor Isabel Night Terrors Hecuba Single Mother Sylvia Wife: The Good Daughter Wife: The Mirror Pleasure Lethe Ex-Wife: Infatuation Ex-Wife: Homesickness Sisters Soul Lover Girlfriend Woman Friend The Friend In the Land of the Inheritance Manufacturing The Basement Black Maid The Fight Cabbie Pick Up Game Between Assassinations

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