Gambler's Daughter

by Guido de Vries, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781550711486
• ISBN10: 1550711482
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions

Summary

A self-reflective exploration in healing, the speaker of these poems confronts memories of her violent father. Throughout her collection, the poet contemplates the type of father she wanted while remembering the positive influences that moulded her childhood. Recalling the women who nurtured and comforted her, the author achieves a sense of peace and balance.

Author Biography

Rachel Guido de Vries teaches creative writing in the Humanistic Studies Center of Syracuse University. She is author of Tender Warriors and How to Sing to a Dago.

Table of Contents

Sound Creek	p. 9
Mystery	p. 10
Morning	p. 13
Gambler's Daughter	p. 14
Inside the Mind of Legs	p. 16
Sunday	p. 18
Poem for My Mother	p. 19
Box Elder, Red, Just August	p. 20
Time to Move	p. 21
Winter	p. 22
Teeth	p. 24
Hunger	p. 25
Blue Jay	p. 27
Spring Song	p. 28
Hospital	p. 30
Blue	p. 31
For Rita, the Photographer	p. 32
Spell on the Third Morning	p. 33
Listen	p. 35
3 A.M.	p. 36
Mourning	p. 37
Question	p. 38
Window	p. 39
Waking	p. 41
Rows	p. 42
Poem for My Cat, Bill	p. 43
Lover in the Garden	p. 44
Picture	p. 45
Say It's	p. 46
Notmothers' Chant #1	p. 47
Eye	p. 48
Prayer	p. 49
All	p. 50
Gratitude	p. 51
Before Sleep	p. 52
When Fear	p. 53
Need: A Little Litany	p. 54
Used to Be Me and You	p. 55
Vanishing Ancestors	p. 56
Godmother/Comare	p. 57
Loon at 6 A.M.	p. 58
Church Bells	p. 59
Self/Portraits	p. 60
Freedom	p. 61
7 A.M., Hinckley Lake	p. 62
Gambler's Daughter, Two	p. 63
After	p. 64
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