Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, ©1997.
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Notes:

• Poems on alcohol addiction and deliverance. In Good-bye, Joan Larkin writes: You are saying good-bye to your last / drink. There is no lover / like her: bourbon, big gem / in your palm and steep /fiery blade in your throat, / deadeye down. None like her / but her sister, first / gin …
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• (Good-bye Genealogy Co-alcoholic How the healing takes place) / Joan Larkin — (Loudmouth soup Amiel’s leg The neighborhood of make-believe A large branch splintered off a tree in a storm) / Thomas Lux — (All the soups His For her children A small pain Who knew Sweeping the floor) / Martha Rhodes — (On the lawn at the drug rehab center Fall The memory Concerning that prayer I cannot make) / Jane Mead — (Disasterology Friends and high places Modern day Sisyphus 1977 First person omniscient The multiple floor) / Jeffrey McDaniel — (Love story in subtitles Runaway Incognito The leaving) / Nancy Mitchell — (Recovery How many times The mother The promise The dream) / Marie Howe — (Even now your are leaving 3 a.m. kitchen: my father talking Coming home On your own Kidnaper) / Tess Gallagher.
• (Cont. 2) (Welcome back, Mr. Knight: love of my life Another poem for me [after recovering from an OD] A wasp woman visits a black junkie in prison Feeling fucked up) / Etheridge Knight — (Addiction I feel unattractive during mating season Drinking beer with Sir Turning into an oak tree The first sober morning) / Cindy Goff — (Adagio Visiting hour Lost fugue for Chet) / Lynda Hull — (The heavens The honor The words of a toast) / Denis Johnson — (The leopard Poor Zelda Enough Let go of it) / Cindy Day Roberts — (The family man A good man’s fate Butchertown Sole of Dover) / William Loran Smith.
• (Cont. 3) (Your sister life Woman in the red house Sober ghost The summer after last How I shaded the book But beautiful) / Michael Burkard — (The summer was not long enough American river sky alcohol father Everyone was drunk The drinker’s wife writes back Night lake Forces Trust me The river at Wolf) / Jean Valentine — (Alcohol NyQuil Drinking while driving Luck The old days Gravy) / Raymond Carver.

Subjects:

• Alcoholism — Poetry.
• Substance abuse — Poetry.
• Alcoholism — Treatment — Poetry.
• Substance abuse — Treatment — Poetry.
• American poetry — 20th century.
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• Poetry. fast (OCoLC)fst01423828

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