Why can't it be tenderness / Michelle Brittan Rosado
- Author:
- Rosado, Michelle Brittan
- Published:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 77 pages ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- Wisconsin poetry series
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I.Western History -- Pastoral with Restless Searchlight -- How to Use Microsoft Paint to Alter a Birth Certificate -- Only Child -- Ambivalence -- Dementia -- Across the Street from Foxboro Elementary School, an Inmate Escapes California State Prison Solano -- Vanishing Ship -- The Elements Have Learned to Speak -- Theory on Falling into a Reef -- Customs -- Between -- Poem for My Twin -- Our Bodies Were Once the Color of Our Masks -- The Hotel Eden -- Asking about My First Name -- Debt -- Poem for My Mother -- Rootless -- My Fathers Work -- The Sky Will Look White -- Pantun -- Poem for My Maternal Grandfather -- Ritual -- Photograph Taken by My Paternal Grandmother on Her Honeymoon, 1944 -- Elegy without Translation -- My Dead Live in Two Rooms -- II.The Dissolution Paperwork Asks if I Need to Restore My Name -- Late Summer -- Sea Shanty for the Divorced -- The Numerology of Us -- Old Knives -- The Tower District -- This Poem Wants to Be a House -- Fresno Laundromat without Air-Conditioning in Late July -- Contemporary Artifacts -- Portrait of His Ex-Lover at a Yoga Studio, Downtown Fresno -- Incident between Two Exits -- Why Can't It Be Tenderness -- The Sweetest Exile Is the One You Choose -- A Name Made of Asterisks -- Mistaken Ode -- Love after Dentistry -- On Waking When You're Already Leaving -- Midwinter -- An anchor in the shape of an ampersand -- Visitations with Unmarried Self -- Glaucoma Test -- Lullaby in Which It Becomes Impossible Not to Talk about Race.
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780299319946 paperback alkaline paper
0299319946 paperback alkaline paper - Note:
- Poems.
- Awards:
- Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, 2018
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