Sleeping With the Moon

by McElroy, Colleen J.

• ISBN13: 9780252032356
• ISBN10: 0252032357
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780252056017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-02
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary

Colleen J. McElroy's poetry shoots for the moon, and takes it in, too, in one way after another. The collection's award-winning poems animate women's experiences of sex, shopping, and dancing, while offering telling insight into the struggles and silver lining of lust, love, illness, and aging. Rich with vivid imagery and candid storytelling,Sleeping with the Moontakes readers on moonlit adventures under the night sky, through the barroom's smoky haze, and under the covers.

Author Biography

Colleen J. McElroy is a professor emeritus of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, Seattle, and the author of several poetry collections, including Traveling Music.      

Table of Contents

Pillow book	p. 3
Mother love	p. 8
Catching gar	p. 10
I speak to the girl some dim boy loves	p. 12
Anniversary	p. 14
Most wanted	p. 15
Sleeping with the moon	p. 16
Codex : frostbite	p. 17
Codex : diagnosis	p. 19
Drawing a line in the sand	p. 21
Chilblains	p. 23
Blues for spring	p. 24
In praise of older women	p. 26
You and me and Veronica Lake	p. 29
First date after fifty	p. 31
The company she keeps	p. 32
Love letters	p. 34
Boys will be	p. 35
Lust	p. 36
Blinded by the moon	p. 37
Remarks beneath the visiting moon	p. 39
Tango moon	p. 40
Heartbreak moon on the Strait of Juan de Fuca	p. 41
In the blind eye of love's shiny moon	p. 43
The year I found myself under two blue moons	p. 45
The vixen speaks to the last full moon of the century	p. 48
Some are dead and some are living	p. 53
Duty	p. 57
Electra	p. 58
Bad slam Broadway	p. 61
Teaching G.I.s to dance	p. 62
What I wish for when I bother to wish at all	p. 64
Photolinen : La Push Beach	p. 65
Heartache : things to watch for	p. 66
Blues for the slimes house	p. 67
Light reflecting glass in the Evelyn room	p. 69
Telling lies	p. 72
Reckless divas	p. 73
Travelling moon	p. 76
Ballad for the blue moon tavern	p. 77
Mae West chats it up with Bessie Smith	p. 81
What happened to the rabbit	p. 82
The moon in the dragon's mouth	p. 84
Wonder woman	p. 86
Fairy tales	p. 87
The princess	p. 88
Unlearning the brothers Grimm	p. 89
Eartha takes the old woman shopping for red shoes	p. 94
Song of the red kimono	p. 96
Last dance for the copper room hot springs band	p. 98
Vienna layover	p. 100
Moon over Turtle Island	p. 102
Moon over Marakesh	p. 103
Loving this earth	p. 105
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