Reckless Wedding

by Flook, Maria

• ISBN13: 9780887482267
• ISBN10: 0887482260
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

Reckless Wedding, Maria Flook's first collection of poems, was chosen for the Houghton Mifflin New Poetry Series in 1982 and it also received The Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. The New York Times wrote: "This poet has the power to see unexpected resemblances--a wonderfully unsettling mix of sexual contamination and back-attic mustiness."

Table of Contents

The Childlike Lives of the Sweep Second Hand and the Single Mother	p. 3
The Late-Shift Comptroller	p. 4
It Can't Be from Love	p. 6
For a Father	p. 8
Poem for Prevention	p. 9
Snow Statement	p. 10
The Crippled Heart	p. 12
Poison Cloud	p. 14
Talking Back	p. 16
Imaginary Photograph of Myself Holding a Pumpkin	p. 18
A New Career	p. 20
Ants in a White Peony	p. 21
The Icehouse Mystery	p. 22
Crime Wave	p. 24
In Love	p. 29
Freeze	p. 31
Radio Request	p. 32
Strangers: Many Perfect Examples	p. 34
Spider Lesson	p. 36
Underground	p. 37
Scarecrow	p. 38
Passion Sense: Driving	p. 40
Passion Sense: Ice	p. 41
Passion Sense: Driving	p. 42
Tuesday	p. 43
Washed	p. 45
Diving Alone	p. 47
Reckless Wedding	p. 51
Years of This	p. 52
Expedition to Sincerity	p. 53
Missing from Home	p. 54
Faithful Excommunicates	p. 56
The Silverside Girl	p. 58
No Rain in Delaware	p. 60
Reunion	p. 62
Elegy for Mothers and Orphans	p. 64
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