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The green tuxedo / Janet Holmes.

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Janet Holmes's second book of poems explores and interrogates the quotidian life of the late twentieth century for what exists behind its often seductive appearance. In these poems we see beneath acceptable, sleek surfaces into the turbulence they often conceal, as the splendid green tuxedo of...

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Main Author: Holmes, Janet (Janet A.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ℗♭1998.
Series:Ernest Sandeen prize in poetry ; 1999.
Subjects:
Poetry.
Poems.
Table of Contents:
  • Against the literal
  • Yellow period
  • At tea with the epistemologist
  • The duck at midlife
  • The blue world
  • The green tuxedo
  • Your bird
  • Adopted bird
  • Departures
  • Landscape duel
  • Still life with bad dog
  • Drive shaft
  • post-solstice
  • The bachelor's house
  • The aquarium
  • The mortician's son
  • Hieroglyphs
  • The erotics of detail
  • Florida
  • Who
  • Particulars
  • A box of old slides
  • What
  • Wild women I have known (part 1 & 2)
  • Roaring twenties
  • S.O.B.
  • Skipped numbers
  • Their names
  • Radio interview
  • My mother's contribution
  • Other questions
  • An aside from Kipling
  • Our names
  • My mother's clown
  • Where
  • Prostrated over fiance's killing
  • When
  • Why
  • How.

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