Spatial relations : poems / by Leonora Smith.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Leonora, 1945-
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2001], ©2001.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:viii, 112 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Biography
  • Catching flounder: self taught
  • Post office: 1952
  • A gambler's daughter
  • Stories at the cocktail hour: a still life with gin
  • Learning to dance
  • The Episcopalian ladies' rummage sale
  • What a tomato!
  • Wait for me, mother
  • Life above water
  • Them
  • Drowning glasses
  • Lonely hearts
  • At the fireman's carnival beer tent
  • Myself as a member of my family
  • From read: weep: eat
  • Text contratext
  • Hand
  • Strange events
  • Copying out
  • Ellipsis
  • Illiterate
  • Margin/text/margin
  • The five paragraph essay
  • Two views of a woman trying to balance in discount store shoes (ca. 1969)
  • From eating red meat
  • A debauch of oysters
  • Silky
  • Smell
  • Acrylic nails
  • Lingerie
  • The tequila wars
  • A Rumpelstiltskin kind of trick
  • The florist's wife feasting
  • Some came home
  • Missing in action
  • Letter from a muck farm
  • Perspective
  • Might have been
  • Yeast
  • On lake Huron
  • Lost earring
  • When you travel alone
  • Garage sale after divorce papers are served
  • Trading stories of light with Saint Lucy
  • Another bottle of Perez sherry
  • The temperature of breast milk
  • Car parts
  • Suit(e) for John
  • Invisible
  • S.A.D
  • Candling
  • Backward
  • Garden Party
  • Alchemy at Lent
  • Spatial relations
  • Fish, Spring, window
  • Black leather.