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The human line

Title
The human line / Ellen Bass.
Author
Bass, Ellen.
Publication
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2007], ©2007.

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xi, 91 pages; 23 cm
Contents
Sleeping in my mother's bed -- Twilight from the window of my mother's hospital room -- On the air -- My father's day -- My mother's clock -- Eating the bones -- Last night -- The end -- Angels -- Ritual -- My mother's painting -- Asking directions in Paris -- Gate C22 -- Discovering fire -- Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh -- Poem not for my son -- Birdsong from my patio -- Evolution -- The human line -- Dead butterfly -- Subway in Madrid -- Screaming -- A child is born -- If you knew -- At the end of the Cenozoic era -- I wake thinking about depleted uranium -- When the young geneticist was asked, "aren't you worried about the implications of your work?" with a toss of her sun-streaked hair, she declared, "no, not at all. I can't wait to fuck a clone" -- God's grief -- The moment I knew I shouldn't have married my husband -- Lost dog -- Is you is -- MIKE -- In praise of four-letter words -- Sad bitch -- The woman who killed my cat -- The big picture -- Pray for peace -- Giving rocks to rocks -- God of roots -- Your hand -- The chair -- Don't expect applause -- Winter Solstice.
ISBN
  • 9781556592553 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1556592558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006034842
OCLC
  • OCM74029342
  • 74029342
  • SCSB-5339146
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries