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The spaces between birds : mother/daughter poems, 1967-1995

Title: The spaces between birds : mother/daughter poems, 1967-1995 / Sandra McPherson.
Author: McPherson, Sandra.
Publication: Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, [1996], ©1996.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS3563.A326 S63 1996	Off-site

Description

viii, 63 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Wesleyan poetry

Uniform Title

Wesleyan poetry.

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Contents

From the Horoscope Cast in Seattle Following My Daughter's Birth -- her words -- Pregnancy -- Labor -- Pisces Child -- Poem for My Child, with a Line by Seferis -- Mother and Child -- On the Move -- her words: Early Language -- her words: "My face looks like jellyfish" -- her words: Asked "Are you a little girl..." -- Butterflies by a Lake -- Eschatology -- her words: "this place is full of dogs..." -- her words: "Mamas talk civilized" -- Children -- Lament, with Flesh and Blood -- Games -- For Elizabeth Bishop -- her words: "They've bought the world" -- Preparing the Will, Three Generations -- Easter 1979 -- Lifesaving -- her words: The Old Valentine -- Flowering Plum -- Conception -- Bad Mother Blues -- her words: The A, B, C, D, and F -- Maureen Morris, Mother of Five, Eats a Pansy from the Garden of a Fancy Restaurant in Aspen -- Note to Sappho -- Some Schizophrenics -- Of Birds and Their Metaphors -- her words: "There are lots of..." -- Measurings, Work and Worth --
Harmonies for the Alienation of My Daughter -- Images -- her words: "I was trying ..." -- her words: Poem about the Evenings -- The Spaces Between Birds -- One Way She Spoke to Me -- her words: "every single thing except..." -- Precious Metal.

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95039746

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Columbia University Libraries