A Series Of Poems About Ordinary Women Piecing Together Their Own Significance. Minor Characters League Of Minor Characters -- It's Not You, It's Me -- International House Of Pancakes -- Lost Coat, Pls Call -- Nuns' Remains -- Map Of The Marriage Bed -- How To Read This Story To Your Children -- Elisabeth Reads Poetry -- Life And Art -- Passing For Mormon -- No, You Have The Wrong Number -- What I Learn Weeding -- Everybody Wang Chung Tonight -- Calling Up Ghosts -- Middle Child Is Born -- Physiology Of Joy -- Minor Celebrities -- Graphology -- Minor Celebrities -- Words Drift Down On Virgil Suarez -- Sarah Chang Plays Violin -- Pantoum For Jane Goodall -- Edna St. Vincent Millay's Husband -- Built Like That -- What I Saw -- Conversation With A Sensualist -- Dust -- Lessons In Trigonometry -- Colonel Mustard Between Games -- Sea Monster -- Shampoo -- Gil's Story -- If We Could Live Here -- Beauty Of The Curve -- Sotto Voce -- Fame -- Fireball -- Preservation -- One Night -- Natural History -- Sound Of A Train -- My Father Invented The Calendar -- My Mother's Biographies -- Woman Reading -- Murder Mystery -- Reading Hamilton's Biography Of Robert Lowell -- Anais Nin On The Sales Table -- Miss Marianne Moore Takes A Tango Lesson -- To Ease My Mind -- Two Dreams Of Infinity -- Informal Visitation -- New Language -- Prayer Animals. Kathleen Flenniken.

Kathleen Flenniken

Bison Books

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry, Lincoln, c2006

United States, United States of America

Lincoln, NB, United States, 2005

First Edition, PT, 2006

1 online resource (74 pages)
"A little voice sings/from the back of the auditorium/of my throat. Aren't all of us/waiting to be discovered?" Here, the poet's answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but tuned to the incidental music of daily life
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Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Minor Characters; Part 2: Minor Celebrities; Part 3: Fame
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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
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She became famous, finally, to herself, Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flennikens first collection, the winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Here a little voice sings / from the back of the auditorium / of my throat. Arent all of us / waiting to be discovered?
The poets answer is sometimes grave, sometimes comic, but always tuned to the incidental music of daily life.

2023-06-28