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Title
Blood memory / Colleen J. McElroy.
Author
ISBN
9780822981329 (electronic bk.)
0822981327 (electronic bk.)
9780822964087
0822964082
0822981327 (electronic bk.)
9780822964087
0822964082
Published
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
40025919441
Call Number
PS3563.A2925
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1379220851
Summary
Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy's collection of narrative poetry, emerges from deep seated memories with enormous emotion. Through the rhythms and musicality unique to McElroy's voice, it portrays an extended family, a complex culture spanning several decades, multiple victories and failures, and a single brilliant soul that frames the poems. Dedicated to McElroy's mother, the book is universal in its scope, inescapable in its earthy particularity. McElroy writes, "I am the last female of a family/ of women who wove the fabric/ of stories into doilies and slip covers.../" Blood Memory offers consummate storytelling and unforgettable poetry capturing a place and time gone forever. And as an evolving history, the poetry has a cinematic quality, large and intimate and at the same time, characters utterly vivid.
Formatted Contents Note
Intro
Contents
I
The Family Album
Les Anciens
A Sounding in the Woods
Badlands
Jackson
The Hanged Man
Gandy Dancer
Roman
For the Want of a Shoe
Rebel
Ablution
Sepia Women
A Given Name
All That They Were
Lawdy Miz Clawdy
Chitlin' Circuit
Kin Folk
Immersion
Uncle Brother
Top Kick
The Thief of Time
Saturday Nights
A Rightful Place
Sunday Best
The Weight of Silence
Rough Trade
Immutable Geography
II
Paint Me Visible
Lost Baby Blues
What the Body Remembers
Home Remedies for Children
Precocious
The Answers to Why
The Legacy
Learning to Love Bessie Smith
My Mother's Baby Toe
Did You Ever Have the Feeling
Chevalier
Aces and Eights
Defining Life
Lessons in Deportment
The Spinsters
Breaking Wild Horses
The Fire Inside
Missouri Blues
Throwing Stones at the All White Pool
Fade to Black
Double Dutch
Tongue Tied
Twilight Sleep
The Mistress of Secrets
The Prodigal Daughter
Lividity
Did I Know You Back Then?
The Third Stage
Blood Lines
Acknowledgments
Contents
I
The Family Album
Les Anciens
A Sounding in the Woods
Badlands
Jackson
The Hanged Man
Gandy Dancer
Roman
For the Want of a Shoe
Rebel
Ablution
Sepia Women
A Given Name
All That They Were
Lawdy Miz Clawdy
Chitlin' Circuit
Kin Folk
Immersion
Uncle Brother
Top Kick
The Thief of Time
Saturday Nights
A Rightful Place
Sunday Best
The Weight of Silence
Rough Trade
Immutable Geography
II
Paint Me Visible
Lost Baby Blues
What the Body Remembers
Home Remedies for Children
Precocious
The Answers to Why
The Legacy
Learning to Love Bessie Smith
My Mother's Baby Toe
Did You Ever Have the Feeling
Chevalier
Aces and Eights
Defining Life
Lessons in Deportment
The Spinsters
Breaking Wild Horses
The Fire Inside
Missouri Blues
Throwing Stones at the All White Pool
Fade to Black
Double Dutch
Tongue Tied
Twilight Sleep
The Mistress of Secrets
The Prodigal Daughter
Lividity
Did I Know You Back Then?
The Third Stage
Blood Lines
Acknowledgments
Series
Pitt poetry series.
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