| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 75 pages) |
| Series |
Crab Orchard series in poetry |
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Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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| Contents |
Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I; Bastard's Song; Delinquent; Feng Shui for Wartime; Meds; Heavenly Bodies; Gher the Hound; The Elderberries; The Judgment; Dry Heart; Whole House Gone to Hell; Wake; Bride of the Barbiturate; Recovery Room; Monica; Part II; Shot Up in the Sexual Revolution: The True Adventures of Suzy Creamcheese; Part III; Coyote; Some Testimony of Witnesses; The Hunting Camp; Foundling; Dirt Cowboy Café; Goldfinches in a Dull Light; My Brother Is Moving to Hawaii; Cut Flowers; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry |
| Summary |
National Book Award Finalist 2012In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism. Heavenly Bodies is a testament to the duality of sex, the twin seductiveness and horror of drug addiction, and the social, political, and personal dramas of America in the 1960s. From the sweetness of purloined blackberries to the bitter taste of pills, the ginger perfume of the Hawaiian Islands to the scream of the winter wind, Huntington's fearless and candid |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-75) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry as Topic
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poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011022095 |
| ISBN |
9780809330645 |
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0809330644 |
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1280697253 |
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9781280697258 |
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9786613674210 |
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6613674214 |
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