Bibliograph

Kitchen heat, poems, Ava Leavell Haymon

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Kitchen heat, poems, Ava Leavell Haymon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Kitchen heat

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

861081959

Responsibility statement

Ava Leavell Haymon

Sub title

poems

Summary

Kitchen Heat records in woman's language the charm and bite of domestic life. Ava Leavell Haymon's poems form a collection of Household Tales, unswerving and unsentimental, serving up the strenuous intimacies, children, meals, pets, roused memories, outrages, and solaces of marriage and family. Some of the poems are comic, such as ""Conjugal Love Poem, "" about a wife who resists giving her husband the pity he seeks when complaining about a cold. Others find myth and fairy tale lived out in contemporary setting, with ironic result. Others rename the cast of characters: husband and wife be

Table Of Contents

Cover; Contents; What the Magnolias Say; CHOOSING MONOGAMY; Hunting and Gathering; Endangered Habitat; Bandera Roja; Rare Night Out; All the Men in My Family Hunt; Winter Migration Patterns; Conjugal Love Poem; Married, with Cancer; Prothalamion; Quarrel: An Aftermath; The Distance Between Us; Choosing Monogamy; Aphrodite; Envoi: Billy Doo; What Passes for Fall; DEPENDABLE HEAT SOURCE; You Can See It in the Architecture; White House in Watercolor; Eye Games; Heat; Old Grandmother Magic; First Grandchild Breaks the Egg with No Shell; Myopia; Four Eyes Gets Her First WarningSnake Doctor Speaks to the ApocalypseYou Never Get to the Horizon; Dry Slowly, Away from Heat; Trophy; Milk Tooth; Sunday Wart Charm; The Lens; First Grandchild Remembers a Christmas Story; Verdict; Apocrypha; Watercolor Lessons; Watercolor: Two Rockers on a Sun Porch; 80th Birthday, Jackson, Mississippi; If You Transplant Parsley, Your Children Will Die; Fence; BABIES'' BONES FROM MAGIC CRYSTALS; Invocation; Written While Baking Easter Dragons; Denmother''s Conversation; Hostess; Denmother''s Vacation; Rainbow Room; Warning; My Dreams Last Night Were Thick with SaltDenmother Lists Her House with a RealtorDenmother Volunteers at the School Carnival; Bone Fires; The Dress; Galapagos in the Felicianas; Love''s Complexion; Shopping; Coelenterata: Navarre Beach; Sighting; Waiting: A Family I Ching; Family Vacation, Complete with Whiplash; You Better Enjoy This, It''s Costing a Fortune; Waiting for Dark; Carving Jack; Mrs. Calendar Negotiates the Xmas Rush; Acknowledgments

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