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You Know the Story -- Dream of the Pink and Black Lace... -- Fat -- Hair -- Blue Velvet Pillows -- Yellow Roses -- Writing Class, Syracuse Winter -- Mama -- You Understand the Requirements -- Orals -- The Pearls -- In a Notebook from Paris -- Drifting -- Why Aerograms Are Always Blue -- Not Quite Spring -- Fitzi in the Yearbook -- Tentacles, Leaves -- On the Other Coast -- All Afternoon We -- Lemon Wind -- Not Thinking It Was So with Yellow Flowers -- Even There -- Lust Blowing under the Door, Bright as Straw -- Mustache -- Weeds and Woodsmoke -- On the New Road -- November 1 Boogie -- Riverwind, Magnolias -- With Your Name Leaking down My Skin -- Names -- Having You Come Up after So Much Time -- Reading Those Poems Because I Can't Get Started -- After a Day We Stay in Bed... -- Love like Shoplifting -- The Child We Will Not Have -- He Said in the Hospital It -- Afternoons in the Blue Rain -- Nice -- Whips at the Ritz -- With So Many Voices -- Your Words -- In This Version -- Somewhere in the Midwest -- With You -- Afterward -- Indian Summer -- Snow Fences, Wormwood -- Shadows of Steam on Champagne, Concrete -- Other Septembers -- Leaving Rome -- Light from This Turning -- There Were Blue Grapes behind the House -- Somewhere near Vilna -- My Father Tells Us about Leaving Vilnius -- I Was Four, in Dotted -- Estelle, Star Stones -- New England Sunday -- All the Women Poets I Like Didn't Have Their Fathers -- Photograph |
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My Sister Wants Me to Come and Read Through Thirty Years of Diaries -- The Cat's Yelp in Black Light -- Holding Animals -- My Uncle Is Selling His Store -- My Sister Says... -- Photographs of Mothers and Daughters -- Mother and Daughter Photographs -- My Mother and the Matches -- I Think of Her in a Pleated Skirt -- That July -- My Mother Who Can't -- In the Dream -- My Mother's Address Book -- My Mother Straightening Pots and Pans -- Barnstable, Two Years Ago -- I Looked Young a Long Time, Didn't I -- Twenty Four Trillium -- The Yahrtzeit Light -- Staying in My Mother's Apartment -- Nichols Lodge in the Rain... -- My Mother Wants Lambchops... -- My Mother and the Lilacs -- Curling on the Bottom of My Mother's Bed -- My Mother Listens to Classical Music -- Getting My Mother Ice -- Taking My Mother to the Bathroom -- My Mother's Tweezers -- Am I Talking to Hair or to a Person: -- Mint Leaves at Yaddo -- My Mother's Ring -- Putting My Mother to Bed -- When I Put On Her Fur Coat -- Afterward, Going to My Mother's Apartment -- Obituary -- The Daughter I Don't Have (1) -- The Daughter I Don't Have (2) -- The Daughter I Don't Have (3) -- The Daughter I Don't Have (4) -- The Daughter I Don't Have (5) -- The Daughter I Don't Have (6) -- The Daughter I Don't Have (7) -- Jeanne Marie Plouffe -- The Lanae, Hotel Kaiamona -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- The Knife Thrower's Woman -- He Said He Was in the Men's Room... -- Elaine -- Nuns at a Retreat |
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He Said He Saw My Picture in Rolling Stone -- The Erotic Mirror -- The Woman Who Canned Hands, Sometimes Fingers -- She Waits like Some Sharp Cheddar in the Pantry -- Old Men Hotel Brenner -- The Old Woman in Amsterdam -- The President's Thighs Hide Out in the Rose Garden -- The President's Arms Are like Oak Branches -- The Blind Basket Maker -- The Man Who Is Married to Siamese Twins... -- Alberta Hunter -- Muriel Rukeyser Accepting an Honorary Degree -- The Ugliest Woman... -- Resuscitating Annie -- He'd Rather Have a Paper Doll -- South of Here -- Under the Rose -- Picasso Standing near Some Germans... -- The Jesuit Who Doesn't Care for Money -- The Jesuit Who Writes Around -- She Said She Could See Music -- Falling to the Ground, He Traces Stars -- Bargain -- The Mad Girl Dials Victoria's Secret After Midnight -- The Mad Girl Picks Inaccessible Men -- The Mad Girl Remembers White Umbrellas... -- The Mad Girl Needs More than Most Others -- The Mad Girl Feels She's on a Leash... -- Barbie Watches TV Alone, Naked -- Barbie Hunts thru Medical Books... -- Barbie Wonders about Buying a Coffin -- Navy Barbie -- Lorena Hears Her Penis Calling for Her -- Years Later Lorena Thinks of the Penis She Had... -- Condom Chain Letter -- The Mad Girl Wraps Her Book of Erotica -- Jackie-O Reads the Story of O... -- Jesus Wonders about Going into Partnership... -- War -- It Was like Wintergreen -- There Were Always Stars -- Treblinka -- She Said I Know It's Almost Midnight... |
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She Said the Geese -- Black Rain, Hiroshima -- You Take for Granted -- He's Moved Everything He Needs into One Room -- In the VA Hospital -- Hearing of Reagan's Trip to Bitburg -- If Hair Could Sift Down -- North of Cottonwood -- Enchanted Mesa -- Thirty Miles West of Chicago -- Things That Shine in Quebec City... -- New Hampshire -- Middlebury Poem -- On Telegraph Hill -- The Man Coming out of Darkness -- Wild Horses Dying -- Afterward -- This Long Winter -- Dark Matter May Bind the Universe -- Here -- Violet Jelly -- Wild Thyme -- Thaw. |
| Abstract |
"Magnificently crafted poems, terse as needlework" (Choice), these concise field reports from a woman warrior at the front lines of feeling confirm the suggestion of Ed Sanders that Lyn Lifshin qualifies as "a modern Emily Dickinson." |
| Summary |
Charismatic little-magazine legend and muse, longtime keeper of the flame of the poem, Lifshin writes with energy, fire and truth of the common world of experience to which our passional lives commit us. Bearing signs of struggle, pain and loss, her work can turn in a heart beat and joy is never refused. |
| Summary |
Like images of battle on a shield or decorative scars, these poems carry the history of the body with agony and pride, as enduring tokens of what it is to be alive. |
| General note | "This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 20 copies lettered A-T with an original artwork by Lyn Lifshin have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray & signed by the poet." -- Colophon |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Purchased from Oak Knoll Books, 1/15/2023 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lifshin, Lyn. Cold comfort. 1st ed. Santa Rosa, Calif. : Black Sparrow Press, 1997 |
| Genre/form | poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 97026949 |
| ISBN | 1574230409 (paper ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574230406 (paper ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1574230417 (cloth trade ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574230413 (cloth trade ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1574230425 (signed cloth ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574230420 (signed cloth ; acid-free paper) |
