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Title
Burnt offerings / Timothy Liu.
Author
ISBN
1556591047
9781556591044
9781556591044
Published
Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, [1995]
Copyright
©1995
Language
English
Description
68 pages ; 23 cm
Exhibited
1995 Poets House Showcase
System Control No.
(OCoLC)32778893
Summary
A collection of poems by a Chinese-American from California. In Thoreau, he writes: "My father and I have no place to go. / His wife will not let us in the house / afraid of catching AIDS. She thinks / sleeping with men is more than a sin, / my father says, as we sit on the curb / in front of someone else's house. / Sixty-four years have made my father impotent. Silver roots, faded black / dye mottling his hair make him look / almost comical, as if his shame / belonged to me."
Formatted Contents Note
Echoes
Thoreau
The size of it
Reading Whitman in a toilet stall
Elegy
Farther view
The cape
Winter
Forty-percent chance of rain
With chaos in each kiss
Ikon
Sunday
The road to Seder
In the outhouse
Rest stop, highway 91
White moths
The marriage
I came
Bruegel
Celan
Manifest destiny
Grave
Nude figure dancing in the foreground
For those who do not dream
Aperture
Survivors
Men without
Poem
She smashes dishes
Apostasy
Naked
Across the river
Benediction.
Thoreau
The size of it
Reading Whitman in a toilet stall
Elegy
Farther view
The cape
Winter
Forty-percent chance of rain
With chaos in each kiss
Ikon
Sunday
The road to Seder
In the outhouse
Rest stop, highway 91
White moths
The marriage
I came
Bruegel
Celan
Manifest destiny
Grave
Nude figure dancing in the foreground
For those who do not dream
Aperture
Survivors
Men without
Poem
She smashes dishes
Apostasy
Naked
Across the river
Benediction.
Source of Acquisition
Gift; Kate P. Millar
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