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03/1997. pages.
0896723755
978-0-89672-375-7
$17.95 cloth
Walt McDonald First-Book Series in Poetry
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Stalking Joy By Margaret Benbow
Foreword by Robert A. Fink
1997 Winner Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry
"A quest, not for fickle happiness, whose pursuit is unworthy, but joy, more durable and much harder won."—Robert A. Fink
"A wild, wild ride. Fierce and chancy, passionate and bawdy, Margaret Benbow's exuberant first book is nothing short of rapturous, enrapturing. . . . She's drawn to the hot, the dangerous, the lush, the profuse. Given the choice of angel or bogeyman, she'll take the bogeyman every time."—Ronald Wallace
How to Tell a Bird of Prey
Girls weighing less than a hundred pounds,
girls who look as though they were raised on
milk veal and summer wine,
can chew down through the roof
and devour whole families. This one wants
the man: rank and sexy as an old bobcat.
She likes his face, that mess of big prize vegetables
with rooty beard and spud chin, red onion cheeks
and hot toad tongue: Wonderful things might happen,
she reflects, if I kiss a toad.
She doesn't see his nose,
that crackbrain crackheart beak.
She doesn't mark his gaze,
beautiful blood in the raptor's eye.
Root of the Ear: the Neighborhood
The Hot Theater of the Head
Lessons of the Flesh
The Raptor's Eye
Memory Jug
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