Walking back up Depot Street : poems /
Pratt, Minnie Bruce.
Walking back up Depot Street : poems / Minnie Bruce Pratt. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)1999. - 1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations. - Pitt poetry series .
Includes bibliographical references.
Shades -- Central prison -- Bust of Martha Mitchell to be unveiled -- Swingblade -- Painting her fingernails red -- Button -- Red string -- The blue cup -- A cold not the opposite of life -- Out of season -- Strange flesh -- The white star -- The A and P -- The possum eats out of the graveyard -- On the silver coast -- What the cat knows -- At deep midnight -- The road to Selma -- Second sight -- The gate -- The petrified woman -- The subway entrance -- Bone day -- Snake eyes -- The shrine -- Fighting fire -- The ferry -- The great migration -- Trash -- Eating clay -- The remnant shop -- Cost and use -- The other side.
A collection of poetry that is both the story of the segregated rural south and the story of a white woman who is leaving that home for the postindustrial north.
ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Winner, 1999
9780822980841
Social problems--Poetry.
Feminism--Poetry.
Lesbians--Poetry.
Women--Poetry.
Electronic Books.
PS3566 / .W355 1999
Walking back up Depot Street : poems / Minnie Bruce Pratt. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, (c)1999. - 1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations. - Pitt poetry series .
Includes bibliographical references.
Shades -- Central prison -- Bust of Martha Mitchell to be unveiled -- Swingblade -- Painting her fingernails red -- Button -- Red string -- The blue cup -- A cold not the opposite of life -- Out of season -- Strange flesh -- The white star -- The A and P -- The possum eats out of the graveyard -- On the silver coast -- What the cat knows -- At deep midnight -- The road to Selma -- Second sight -- The gate -- The petrified woman -- The subway entrance -- Bone day -- Snake eyes -- The shrine -- Fighting fire -- The ferry -- The great migration -- Trash -- Eating clay -- The remnant shop -- Cost and use -- The other side.
A collection of poetry that is both the story of the segregated rural south and the story of a white woman who is leaving that home for the postindustrial north.
ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Winner, 1999
9780822980841
Social problems--Poetry.
Feminism--Poetry.
Lesbians--Poetry.
Women--Poetry.
Electronic Books.
PS3566 / .W355 1999