The Year We Studied Women

by Bruce Snider

Book Overview

In this intimate first collection Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss, and identity in poems about everything from algebra to sperm to lipstick. A farmer finds the body of a dead child, a boy watches his mother get ready for a date, a woman with cancer shops for a wig, an overweight sister shares a cupcake with her little brother. In the book's longest and most complex poem a tarot card reading excavates the relationship between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299193845
• ISBN13: 9780299193843
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.2"