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Instructions for My Mother's Funeral

Instructions for My Mother's Funeral Paperback / softback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Laura Read

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Paperback / softback. New. Winner of the 2011 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Dorianne Laux This collection examines how the loss of a parent at a young age can color the way that child looks at the world even when the child is no longer a child.
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  • Title Instructions for My Mother's Funeral
  • Author Laura Read
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 104
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date 2012-11-25
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780822962151
  • ISBN 9780822962151 / 0822962152
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.4 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women, Families
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012275029
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6

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From the publisher

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 Was Raped Here.\u201d The second section follows the speaker into adolescence and young adulthood, and these poems further explore the sexual violence in the world in which the speaker lives, and how this violence affects her own feelings toward sex and romantic love. In the third section, the book finds love, work, and family, and the poems in this section about motherhood echo back to the first section as the speaker's own parenting is influenced by how difficult it is to love when you know people die.

About the author

Laura Read teaches composition, literature, and creative writing courses at Spokane Falls Community College. She has published poems in a variety of journals, most recently in Rattle, Mississippi Review, Third Wednesday, and Bellingham Review. Her chapbook, The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You, was the 2010 winner of the Floating Bridge Chapbook Award.