Instructions for My Mother's Funeral

by Laura Read

Book Overview

This collection is divided into three sections. The first opens with the speaker's reflections on her childhood loss of her father and subsequent move to a new house and a new life, a life in which she is always alert to the absences and danger but also a life in which she begins to see language as a kind of salvation. This section also develops the speaker's first knowledge of sex, primarily in the poems, \u201cThe Goose Girl\u201d and \u201cA Woman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822962152
• ISBN13: 9780822962151
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"