Stray home
Subtitle: poems
By: by Amy M. Clark.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Vassar Miller prize in poetry series -- no. 17; Vassar Miller prize in poetry series -- no. 17.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Denton, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781574412802
Subjects: Single women -- United States -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry
Notes: "2009 Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry."
Table of contents: title: I. Scope; title: Arc; title: Do you want to hold the baby?; title: Girl with a playbill; title: Monkey with a cup; title: Looking for Z;; title: Night rescue; title: First thing this morning; title: Come dusk; title: The art teacher's wife; title: Calla lily.  II. Faces at a play; title: Dumb; title: Name pinned to the skin of a mole; title: Catch; title: Anniversary; title: Stray home; title: Carsick on the way to the coast, with Mary and her daughter in the infant seat; title: Seesaw; title: Safebox.  III. How to be the lady of the house; title: The donut shop; title: Postcards from the best women friends of our men; title: After being elsewhere, upon returning; title: The grizzly bear in February; title: The Lafayette Square holiday mansion tour; title: Duet under glass; title: Daughter for my prayer.  IV. Pink cotton panties & the bonsai tree; title: Shudder; title: Embrace on the neck; title: The roasted-corn man of Golden Hill; title: Neighbors; title: Apology to the foster child on her tenth birthday; title: Shell pink clock; title: Our friends in Minnesota; title: Winter & the Santa Ana winds; title: Why we love our dogs.