Kitchen Heat : Poems.
Title:
Kitchen Heat : Poems.
Author:
Haymon, Ava Leavell.
ISBN:
9780807157626
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (108 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- 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 Warning -- Snake Doctor Speaks to the Apocalypse -- You 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 Salt -- Denmother Lists Her House with a Realtor -- Denmother 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.
Abstract:
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 become rhinoceros and ox; a carpool driver, the ominous figure Denmother.An elderly female is Old Grandmother, who creates time and granddaughters from oyster stew. The humidity of Deep South summers and steam from Louisiana recipes contribute to a simmering language, out of which people and images emerge and into which they dissolve again.Denmother went to college in the 60s,could pin your ears back at a cocktail party.Her laugh had an edge to it,and her yard was always cut.She grew twisted herbs in the flower beds,hid them like weeks among dumpy marigolds.The wolfsbane killed the pansiesbefore they bloomed much.She'd look at you real straight and talkabout nuclear power plants or abortion. At homealone she boiled red potatoes all nightto make the primitive starch that holds up the clouds. -- "Denmother's Conversation".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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