Parents from a Different Alphabet

by Raptosh, Diane

• ISBN13: 9781550712858
• ISBN10: 1550712853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc

Summary

Containing a very moving section dedicated to the death of the author's father, this collection of prose poems considers a variety of forms of love as well as the plights and blitheness of the body, individual and collective. Flourishing under the personal experience of loss, the author uses a broken sentence style that is written in the language of tomorrow as she continues on her trajectory toward new and unexplained horizons in poetry.

Author Biography

Diane Raptosh teaches composition, creative writing, and literature at Albertson College of Idaho, where she holds the Eyck-Berringer Endowed Chair in English. She is the author of Just West of Now and Labor Songs. She lives in Boise, Idaho.

Table of Contents

Domestic Affairs	p. 11
The Rapture	p. 12
Story Problem	p. 13
World Affairs	p. 14
Everything	p. 15
Diva Regina's Soliloquy	p. 16
Saudade	p. 17
The Uppermost	p. 18
Betrayal	p. 19
Private Sector	p. 20
Family Tree	p. 21
Matrilineal	p. 22
The Elbow Room	p. 23
Brussels Sprouts	p. 24
Basketball	p. 25
Affliction	p. 26
Information Age	p. 27
The Mother of Her Second Daughter	p. 28
Great Books	p. 29
The Inconceivable	p. 30
Interior Design	p. 31
Townhouse	p. 32
Cape Plumbago	p. 33
Blind Woman Leading	p. 37
Dispatch from a Liberian Soldier	p. 38
Human with Feline Head	p. 39
Monogamy	p. 40
Matrimony	p. 41
The Male Mother	p. 42
The Island of Menstruating Men	p. 44
In the Infusion Room	p. 45
The Body Politic	p. 46
Couvade	p. 48
Mushroom Town	p. 50
Part for the Whole	p. 53
Anatomy Lessons	p. 54
Parts of Speech	p. 55
Plosion	p. 56
Up the Marrow and About the Face	p. 57
Tale About Teeth	p. 58
Treatise on the Lips	p. 59
Nose Opus	p. 60
Ears: An Essay	p. 61
Neck and Neck	p. 62
The Human Fish	p. 63
Forearm Poem	p. 65
Hip	p. 66
String Theory	p. 67
Rhapsody in Gray	p. 68
Autumn in the City of Trees	p. 69
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