Research Catalog

Title

The human line / Ellen Bass.

Author

Bass, Ellen.

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

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