Pink Lady
Poems
Published on 14. January 2025
97 pages
978-0-8229-9193-9 (ISBN)
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When her mother agrees to enter a Rhode Island nursing home in December of 2019, Denise Duhamel promises she'll visit at least once a month. By March of 2020, everyone is in lockdown. The elegies in Pink Lady explore the resiliency of her elderly mother and nurses on the frontline, as well as the personal and universally experienced anxieties faced during pandemic policies. With focus, obsession, and even humor, Duhamel chronicles the separation of a mother and daughter, documenting the power of imagination, the aging body, and the limits of caregiving.
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Denise Duhamel is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami. Her previous books include Second Story, Scald, Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Prodigal Prayer
- Last Picnic
- Summer of Love
- What My Mother Left Behind, What She Discarded
- Butterfly Poem
- Purple Poem
- Wackadoodle
- My Mother in a Grass Skirt
- Laundry Poem
- The Last Time I Saw My Mother before the Pandemic
- Barn Babies
- Snow Globe
- Strength Training
- Votive Poem
- Adaptation
- Communique: Emails from Mount St. Rita's
- Flip
- Monkey Mind (or, Could He Win Again?)
- Now That My Mother Isn't Allowed to Walk in the Halls
- ER
- New Rules
- Beginning
- What My Mother Said in the ICU
- Generosity
- While She Can Still Speak
- Independence Day (Hospice)
- News
- That's Where You'll Find Me
- Another Summer of Love (2021)
- Ready
- Ensure
- Sacrament
- Sweet Day
- The Universe
- Mercy
- Teaspoons
- Nourish
- Baby Mouse
- Orchid
- I Put All the Poems about My Mother's Death in a File
- Pink Lady
- A Taste for Bananas
- Display
- Purse
- After the Tropical Storm
- Impossible Poem
- Bag Ladies
- What We Learned after She Died
- Inheritance
- Death Dream
- The Brat
- Mostly Gone
- Circulation
- My Mother's Cover-Up
- January 6, 2022
- #MeToo
- Testimony
- Signs and No Signs
- Poem in Which I Banish Sorrow
- Old Lady Smell
- I Have Slept in Many Places
- Bombs, the Good Kind
- Acknowledgments
