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Published on 27. April 2021
117 pages
978-1-59709-871-7 (ISBN)
Description
- FOR FANS OF The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- BEST SELLER: Successor to Allison Joseph's NAACP-nominated bestseller, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
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Allison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is a professor of English and director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University. She serves as poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review. Her books include My Father's Kites (Steel Toe Books), Trace Particles (Backbone Press), Little Epiphanies (NightBallet Press), Mercurial (Mayapple Press), Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press), Multitudes (Word Poetry), The Purpose of Hands (Glass Lyre Press), Double Identity (Singing Bone Press), Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry Press), and What Once You Loved (Barefoot Muse Press). Her most recent full-length collection, Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, was published by Red Hen Press in June 2018.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Lexicon
- If, When, Still
- Dreaming the Spectrum
- Literature
- At Seventeen I Learned the Truth
- Manufacture
- Collision
- Aloud
- Eros
- Grief: A Complaint
- Grief: A Petition
- Dead Mothers
- Plaint
- Her Want
- Another Childhood
- Awakening
- Insurrection
- Fashion and Beauty Forecast
- Recommendation Letter
- Glasses and Braces
- Regional Airport
- Why I Love Sleep
- The Old Man at the Rock Show: New Haven, CT
- Watching The Omen III: The Final Conflict on Late Night Cable
- Jayne With a "Y"
- Chasing Marian
- Ms. Jackson Replies
- The World's Worst White Supremacist
- Ruined Things
- Emergency Rooms
- Rules for Writing
- The Courtship of Misery and Illness
- What They're Thinking While You're Reading Your Poems
- Giving Up Writing
- My Muse
- Mistaken Identity
- Seamstress, 1946
- Looking is for Poets
- Figure Study, Reclining Female
- Mea Culpa
- Philologist
- Chalazion
- Funk Box
- Ode to My Stomach
- Ordinary Dress
- Love Poem
- Token Black
- Radios
- Sidekicks
- Poetry
- Keisha Addresses Her Teacher on the Art of Poetry
- Pippi Longstocking
- People: A Ballade
- Laureate
- Why I'm a Terrible Bed and Breakfast Patron
- Women's Encounter Group: Sunday Funnies
- Beauty Queens I Wish Existed
- Given Names
- Camp Counselor
- My Posthumous Mother
- Ravenous
- Domestic Humiliation
- Biographical Note
