II. I. Only His Bones Remain. Mollie O'Rourke Cleary Explains -- Where the Kaw Angles Fast into the Missouri River -- You Are Such Good Children -- Little Boys -- The Big Nun -- History of My Hair -- We All Like Shiny Boots -- Summer Dancing -- The John Harvard Charm Bracelet -- Philomel, Postulant -- How Long? -- The Blue Neon Word -- Too Brilliant -- Portovenere -- Millefiori -- When a First Time? -- Except For -- Black Glass Beads -- Prunella -- The Protectors -- I Am Always Holding a Baby -- Emily Is Sitting -- I Could Have Taken the Other Bridge -- II. She Waits -- Toronto -- Waiting All My Life -- Mother Is Scrubbing Her Floors -- Who Will Hold Me? -- Mother Mourns -- Portuguese Motets -- Mother Remembers Flowers -- To the Virgin in Saint-Sulpice -- Veni Creator -- Daddy Said -- Black Jack -- Mother Won't Wear Walking Shoes -- Mother Won't Buy Polypropylene -- Elva Remembered -- Mother Is Dying -- For Yvette Chauvire (1917 -- 2016) -- Chinese Box of Love Scenes -- After Reading about Chinese Foot-binding -- The Bride -- My Burberry Raincoat -- Menaced by Flowers -- Irises in the Tribal Grill -- Lace -- Katherine Dunham: on Haitian Dance -- One Single Blueberry -- Une Seule Myrtille -- The Alarm Clock -- Only His Bones Remain.
Summary:
"Most of the poems in this collection, set largely in Kansas City, Missouri, deal with women's perspectives on coming of age, love, family, as well as the nature of artistic transcendence, reflecting subjects across several decades in the 20th and 21st centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
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