Post-Rapture Diner
Published on 15. February 1996
88 pages
978-0-8229-9079-6 (ISBN)
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Winner of the 1997 American Book Award for Poetry and Nominated for the 1997 Poet's Prize, The Post-Rapture Dinner is about finding hope, about confronting and overcoming cynicism by discovering a spiritually grounded in the things of this world.
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11/1995
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Dorothy Barresi
The Post-Rapture Diner
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11/1995
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Dorothy Barresi is the author of four previous books of poetry: American Fanatics; Rouge Pulp; The Post-Rapture Diner, winner of an American Book Award; and All of the Above, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. She is professor of English and creative writing at California State University, Northridge.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Some Questions We Might Ask
- Mother Hunger and Her Seatbelt
- Poem
- My Anger in 1934
- Called Up: Tinker to Evers to Chance
- The Post-Rapture Diner
- When I Think About America Somtimes (I think of Ralph Kramden)
- Still Life with Hummingbird and Typewriter
- Shirts & Skins
- Vanity Fair
- On First Looking Into Wells Fargo and Seeing a Rock Star
- The Vinegarroon
- The Nude Detective, a Complaint
- Vivid Video
- On the Poisoning of a Neighborhood Cat
- Noah Descending
- Crow Sermon
- Surfing as Meditation
- Icarus Holds the Trouble Light
- The Older Brothers of Girls I Grew Up With
- The Prodigal Daughter
- For Andrew, Setting Out on a Long Journey Alone
- Shoestore Monkey
- The Jaws of Life
