Utah State University Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-87421-483-3 | Cloth: 978-0-87421-567-0 | Paper: 978-0-87421-576-2 Library of Congress Classification PS3552.I77234S54 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Suzette Marie Bishop teaches writing at Texas A&M International University. This will be her first full-length book, though she's published a chapbook and many individual poems in national poetry journals. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, Ms. Bishop's credits include publications in Antioch Review, 13th Moon, Eratica, Aries, The Little Magazine, and many other literary journals. As a poet and writing teacher on the faculty of Texas A&M International, she gives many readings, as well as workshops for gifted children, seniors, and other writers on the US-Mexico border; she has worked with at-risk youth and with the rural Hispanic community.
REVIEWS
"The book is wild, bold, furious, generous, unsubdued, hilariously and painfully juxtaposing whole strata of languages in chunks of cognitive dissonance that tell more about our culture and our world than volumes of sociology, She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes is deeply personal, extravagantly public art. It is experimental in ways that May Swenson would have applauded." -Alicia Ostriker
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Foreword by Alicia Ostriker
one Do Not Drive into Smoke
Reaching for Your Hair
Disruptions
Elegant Shrimp in Champagne Sauce
My Dream House
House-Sitting
Knowing Objects Will Outlast Them
My Gown is a Momentary Outline
Dragons
The Bat
One Summer
Exit Interview
Melinda
Horrorscope
Graveyard
Visiting Relatives
Mirror and Sword Trick
In the Holy Spirit Research Center
Least Terns
Bloodstone
Water Moccasin
Anasazi Bowl
Do Not Drive into Smoke
Wedding Triptych
Cool Wagons & Bone Chandeliers
Through the Corridor
Departing Iceland
two As Good There as Here to Burn
At the Ramada Inn with Ruth and Esther
Emitting a Sound
Conversation with Anne Truitt
The Conservator
Purple Gloxinia
Hannah Höch
Beneath Eva Hesse's Fiberglass Veil
Photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
The Ghost of Christina Rossetti
As Good There as Here to Burn
three She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes (a long poem)
About the Author
The May Swenson Poetry Award
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Utah State University Press, 2004 eISBN: 978-0-87421-483-3 Cloth: 978-0-87421-567-0 Paper: 978-0-87421-576-2
Suzette Marie Bishop teaches writing at Texas A&M International University. This will be her first full-length book, though she's published a chapbook and many individual poems in national poetry journals. Nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, Ms. Bishop's credits include publications in Antioch Review, 13th Moon, Eratica, Aries, The Little Magazine, and many other literary journals. As a poet and writing teacher on the faculty of Texas A&M International, she gives many readings, as well as workshops for gifted children, seniors, and other writers on the US-Mexico border; she has worked with at-risk youth and with the rural Hispanic community.
REVIEWS
"The book is wild, bold, furious, generous, unsubdued, hilariously and painfully juxtaposing whole strata of languages in chunks of cognitive dissonance that tell more about our culture and our world than volumes of sociology, She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes is deeply personal, extravagantly public art. It is experimental in ways that May Swenson would have applauded." -Alicia Ostriker
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Foreword by Alicia Ostriker
one Do Not Drive into Smoke
Reaching for Your Hair
Disruptions
Elegant Shrimp in Champagne Sauce
My Dream House
House-Sitting
Knowing Objects Will Outlast Them
My Gown is a Momentary Outline
Dragons
The Bat
One Summer
Exit Interview
Melinda
Horrorscope
Graveyard
Visiting Relatives
Mirror and Sword Trick
In the Holy Spirit Research Center
Least Terns
Bloodstone
Water Moccasin
Anasazi Bowl
Do Not Drive into Smoke
Wedding Triptych
Cool Wagons & Bone Chandeliers
Through the Corridor
Departing Iceland
two As Good There as Here to Burn
At the Ramada Inn with Ruth and Esther
Emitting a Sound
Conversation with Anne Truitt
The Conservator
Purple Gloxinia
Hannah Höch
Beneath Eva Hesse's Fiberglass Veil
Photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
The Ghost of Christina Rossetti
As Good There as Here to Burn
three She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes (a long poem)
About the Author
The May Swenson Poetry Award
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
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