Research Catalog

Title

Desire zoo : poems / Alison Luterman.

Author

Luterman, Alison

Publication

San Fernando : Tia Chucha Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

95 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Alison Luterman#x19;s eye is on women, on children, in the streets and in the woods. Or at home alone in front of a desk. Her arms envelop love in whatever form it shows up: a cup of coffee from her husband, or the curve of a pregnant woman#x19;s belly as she walks around the lake in flip-flops. Luterman#x19;s poems are concerned with this and more. She is not abstract#x14;she can#x19;t stop telling stories. She doesn#x19;t know how to refrain from making meaning out of scraps of beauty that she#x19;s found. For Luterman, poetry is both a privilege and a job."--Amazon.

Subject

• American poetry
• Poésie américaine

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part 1. Young buck on Snake Road -- Man on wire, woman on couch, screaming -- Because these failures are my job -- Pausing before plunging in -- Love shack -- Arrow -- Because even the word obstacle -- Say yes to the dress -- Dust -- What about God -- Moon river -- Rosy road -- Amber -- Cashmere -- Maria -- Day of the Dead, Oakland, California -- Citizens of a broken city -- Manifesto.
• Part 2. Desire zoo. Carried along on great wheels -- Anything golden -- Words for a student -- Pig at the Mexican orphanage -- As close as you are to me now -- Watching the giraffes -- Marriage -- Feeding the feral cats -- Unsolved -- Fig tree -- Messed-up villanelle about intimacy -- After the fight -- Napa wine tasting -- Peaches -- White lady of once a week -- The book of last year's resolutions -- Elusive -- Domestic violence -- Language acquisition -- Breakfast, winter -- The boy, the world -- Old paint -- Saving the platoon -- Home dancing.
• Part 3. Honeymouth. Stanley Clarke -- When I sprawl in bed in the morning -- Honeymouth -- What could one say to a dead person -- Ecstasy -- The witnesses -- Sunday morning -- Buffy St. Marie -- Sex work -- Standing in her shoes -- Late October -- Blasphemy -- Sustain.

ISBN

• 1882688473
• 9781882688470

OCLC

• 862589928
• SCSB-11106387

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library