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Domestic Interior

by Stephanie Brown

University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
eISBN: 978-0-8229-9073-4 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5997-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3552.R723D66 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.5422

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The poems in Domestic Interior describe the private and sometimes secret spaces of marriage, parenthood, and knowledge.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie Brown is the author of Allegory of the Supermarket. She has published numerous poems in the American Poetry Review, and her work has been selected for the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation; Body Electric: Twenty-Five Years of America's Best Poetry; and four editions of The Best American Poetry. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Brown is a public library branch manager in Orange County, California.

REVIEWS

”The words and stanzas of each of her poems are arranged perfectly, and the order of her works is stitched into a solid, enjoyable compilation. . . . Relevant, realistic, extremely beautiful, and accessible.”
—The Feminist Review

"Stephanie Brown is a poetic force to be reckoned with. After the release of Allegory of the Supemarket, it is difficult to imagine a follow-up as strong as her first collection. Domestic Interior delivers."
--Ballard Street Poetry Journal

"In her second book, Brown cuts through pretension with a voice like a whip. These poems engage because they depict human relationships with a profound honesty."
--Library Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

I. Neighbors

I Observe This Morphic Field

Domestic Interior

Private School

Bougainvillea

Neighbors in Their Own Bunkers

How Could We Decorate a Haunted House?

Calm Down!

Library

Saying Good-bye to the World War II Generation

No Irish Need Apply

Massachusetts

II. Education

“Liking Something Is Not Enough”

Diagnosis: Psychosis

Time, Waste of

See, e.g., Hildegarde, Fatima, Blake, McLuhan

Invective

Prescription Pills

Snobs

Marble Obelisk

Education

III. Folie à Deux

Pension, Venezia

Ten Years

The Temper

The Alcoholic and the Ball and Chain

Legal Separation

John Barleycorn

After the End, Hope for the Beginning

Peace

IV. Not Too Serious

Self-Portrait at the End of the First Half of My Life

Not Too Serious

The Staff Lounge

The Divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Moore

Camp

The Satanists Next Door

Supervision

Husbandry

Dolphins

Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane

The Family Jewels

V. The Mother

Hope for the Hopeless

Indoors

The Devouring Father

Keeping

Coloring Book

St. Dymphna

Black and White

“The Abyss Stares Back at You”

The World Will Ask for Your Greed, Envy, and Sloth

Good-bye

Souls in Purgatory

The Mother Becomes the Mother of Herself as Well

Notes

Acknowledgments

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