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Author Pratt, Minnie Bruce.

Title Walking back up Depot Street : poems / Minnie Bruce Pratt
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations
Series Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
Contents 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 & 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award Winner, 1999
Subject Social problems -- Poetry
Feminism -- Poetry
Lesbians -- Poetry
Women -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
POETRY -- American -- General.
Feminism
Lesbians
Social problems
Women
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822980841
0822980843