Dark Blonde Poems

Name: Dark Blonde Poems
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ISBN: 9781889330082

ISBN-10: 1889330086

ISBN-13: 9781889330082

Edition: N/A

Authors: Belle Waring

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Waring has worked as a neo-natal intensive care nurse and as Writer-in-Residence at Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. Her first collection of poetry, Refuge, won the Associated Writing Program's Award for Poetry in 1989, the Washington Prize in 1991, and was cited by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of 1990. Her second collection Dark Blonde received the San Francisco Poetry Center Poetry Prize and the Larry Levis Reading Prize in 1997. It was published by Louisville's Sarabande Books. "Drawing from her work as a neonatal nurse and from some more common experiences (e.g. nervous breakdowns, incest and poverty), Waring exhibits the street-smart ear and…

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List price: $12.95
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English



Sure I Do


Look


It Was My First Nursing Job


An Engine Fire over the Ocean Compared to the Suburbs


In the Ladies' Room at the Honeybee Bar and Grille


So Get over It, Honey


Use the Following Construction in a Sentence


The Brothers on the Trash Truck and My Near-Death Experience


Before Penicillin


From the Diary of a Clinic Nurse, Poland, 1945


Baltazar Beats His Tutor at Scrabble


People Think All Wrong about Manhood


He Said Yes


Bipolar Affective Disorder as Possible Adaptive Advantage


Late in the Teachers' Lounge


Twenty-Four-Week Preemie, Change of Shift


From the Diary of a Prisoner's Nurse, Mississippi, 1972


The Forgery


On First Hearing T'ao Ch'ien


Fever, Mood, and Crows


Hear Me, Oh My Grandmothers


Jasmine Dreams


Shots


Waiting To Be Told I'm No Good


Parts


So What Would You Have Done?


Eleventh Day of Rain


Pick It Up


Old Blood


For My Third Cousin Ray John


Ending Green


You Could Have Been Me


The Argument


To Them, to Their First Conversation


Notes


The Author