Research Catalog

Title

The violent foam : new and selected poems / by Daisy Zamora ; translated by George Evans.

Author

Zamora, Daisy.

Publication

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2002.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Zamora, Daisy.
• Evans, George, 1948-

Description

xxiv, 205 pages; 22 cm

Contents

• Introduction: A Chunk of Violent Foam -- From Each One Life -- Daguerreotype of a Mother -- Otilia, Ironing Woman -- Minimal Elegy -- The Waitress (1) -- Faithful Housewife -- The Waitress (2) -- The Masseuse -- The Waitress (3) -- Family Portrait -- Prophetic Flashback -- The Seamstress -- News in the Supermarket -- Mary Elizabeth -- Neruda Read by an Older Woman -- The Foreigner -- Old Bookbinder's Restaurant, Philadelphia -- The Landlord's Son (19th Street, The Mission, San Francisco) -- Promenade -- The Most Precious Jewel -- June Night -- Letter to a Sister Who Lives in a Distant Country -- The Immigrant -- To A Lady Who Laments the Harshness of My Verses -- Death Abroad -- Fairy Tales -- Requisites for a Beauty Queen -- Lassie (Autobiography) -- Test to Know Your Husband -- Seascape -- Advice for Attracting Your Husband -- Home, Sweet Home -- How Your Man Sees You (A Pocket Dictionary for Women) -- For Leaders and All Other Men -- Prescription --
• Intensive Care -- To Be a Woman -- For My Grandfather Vicente, from January until His Death -- Self-portrait -- The Visit -- Old Great-aunt -- Sisters -- We Take You for Granted -- My Dear Aunt Chofi -- Discerning Death -- Memory Fragments -- Grandfather after Death -- Lineage -- Detail -- Urgent Message to My Mother -- A Scattered Squad -- I Come Back to Myself -- Daughter -- Hand Mirror -- Woman for the Species -- Rushed to the Hospital -- Mother's Day -- Lullaby for a Newborn Girl Who Died -- Razed Field -- The Face of the Dead -- Mirage -- Novella -- To Enter the World -- Final Balance -- Friends / Sisters -- Memory -- Celebration of the Body -- No-man's-land -- Letter to Jose Coronel Urtecho -- Surreptitious Encounter with Joaquin Pasos -- The Art of Loving.

ISBN

1880684888

LCCN

2002004255

OCLC

• ocm49326850
• SCSB-4282534

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries