Bare Hands
Subtitle: poems
By: Lindsey Royce
Contributors: Walzer, Kevin, poetry editor; Marlowe, Cyndi, photographer
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781625492050
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Family violence; Families; American poetry
Description: Hard-hitting poems about abusive familial relationships, family image, personal identity and power.
Table of contents: title: I: The Fatherly Season; title: My Father the Bard; title: The Self-made Man; title: My Father's Animals; title: Photo of My Father at Twelve; title: Forbidden Fruit; title: The Pin Oak, the Oracle; title: II: My Mother's Wallpaper; title: Polished; title: Country Club Funerals; title: Keepin' It Real; title: Call Center for Madonna/Whore Support; title: Swallowing It; title: The Promised Land; title: Mastering Culinary Arts; title: Burden of Proof; title: Sunday Night Dinners; title: III: Reworkings: Stieglitz's Photo of O'Keeffe Painting a Watercolor; title: How to Lose the Self; title: The Art of Shape; title: My Fist That Punched the Window; title: My Father's Heart; title: My Mother's Chores; title: The Little Engine That Could; title: My Wound; title: Watching Her Neigh; title: IV: Last Things; title: Nothing Left to Brace Against; title: My Father's Wallet; title: Self-portrait as a Perspective Drawing; title: The Repair; title: Nakedness; title: Grieving; title: Please; title: Notes