View from true north : poems / by Sara Henning
- Author
- Henning, Sara
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Published
- Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Series
- Contents
- First Murmuration. I. Camera Lucida -- Rites of Passage: A Conditional -- How I Learned I Had the Shine -- For My Uncle, Who Learned to Fly -- Marilyn -- For My Sister, Miscarried -- Other Planets, Other Stars -- The Art of Drowning -- My Life in Men -- Song -- Concordance for My Grandfather's Dementia -- Drunk Again, He Pushes Her -- Rain Elegy -- Baptize Him in Dark Water -- The Day He Became an Aurora Borealis -- The Mandoline. II. The End of the Unified Field -- The Truth of Them -- My Grandfather's Suits -- These Are Not Nice Birds -- Through a Glass Darkly -- Letter to My Grandfather, Who Lived Two Lives -- Truths Only Starlings Will Speak -- How to Pray -- Fathers and Sons -- The Things of the World Go on without Us -- True North, a Retrospective.
- Summary
- "The first section of the book deals with familial violence and abuse--sexual, physical, and emotional; the second section considers sexual identity, specifically the multigenerational repression, erasure, and silencing of homosexual identity"--
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780809336869 (electronic bk.)
0809336863 (electronic bk.)
9780809336852
0809336855
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