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The end of desire : poems

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Description: viii, 78 pages; 22 cm
Summary: Jill Bialosky's first collection of poems is an exceptional one - moving, very accomplished, marked by an unflinching realism and a sharply observant eye combined with great technical skill. Childhood and adolescence shattered by a father's death and the struggles of a mother to raise her daughters are among its concerns. The poems have a dignity and magic that are quite distinctive.
Contents: Cornfields -- Fathers in the Snow -- Ballet Lesson -- A Sister's Story -- Premonition -- My Mother Was a Lover of Flowers -- Sisters -- Three on a Match -- Carousel -- Carnival -- Ruined Secret -- Stairway to Heaven -- My Groom -- The Lover's Gift -- The Artist Misjudges Perfection -- A Lover's Quarrel -- Blueberries -- Oh Giant Flowers -- A Lover's Plea -- Without -- Ironing -- Grief -- What You Are Left With -- Skating Pond -- Cold Heart -- Snow Falling Upside Down -- House Cat -- Childbirth, 1943 -- History Lesson -- Silvet -- The Day the World Stopped -- The End of Desire -- Baltimore, On Turning Thirty-Seven -- The Drowning -- The Runaway -- The Suicide's Garden -- The Goddess of Despair -- Stolen Cry -- American Landscape -- The Dawn of the End of Civilization.
ISBN: 0679454551
LCCN: 96043695
OCLC: ocm35526311
Owning Institutions: Columbia University Libraries