Now you're the enemy poems /
by James Allen Hall.
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2008.
- 1 online resource (x, 74 pages).
- University of Arkansas Press poetry series .
Includes bibliographical references.
I. ; Family Portrait [When I say my mother]; Wedding Dress; Portrait of My Mother as the Republic of Texas; The Egg; Portrait of My Mother as Rosemary Woodhouse; Song; Touch; A Fact Which Occurred in America; Family Portrait [If I could turn the photograph]; Portrait of My Mother as Self-Inflicting Philomena; In Captivity; Safety; My Father's Triumph; Parthenogenesis; My Mother's Love; Family Portrait [The woman has disrobed]; Madame Lear; Brief History of My Mother; II.; Pleasure; Heritage; We Fall in Love with Total Strangers; In Praise of Lies. Portrait of My Lover as "Man in a Polyester Suit (1980)"Portrait of My Mother as Lillian Virginia Mountweazel; Four Letters from SPC Elycia Loveis Fine; Portrait of My Mother as Victorine Meurent; Aubade; The End of Myth; The Dumb Body; You Send Me Roses; My Father's Time; We Exult in Your Pain; The Enemy; Naming the End; Love the Shattered Thing; Portrait of My Lover Singing in Traffic; Notes.
James Allen Hall is assistant professor of English at Bethany College in West Virginia. Now You're the Enemy was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Book Award and a semifinalist for the Crab Orchard/Open Competition Book Award. He's the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and three Pushcart Prize nominations.