Mating Season

by Kate Gale

Overview

Poetry. Known for her gutsy, sensual, dark and glittering poems, Kate Gale writes the world as it is: hard, cold, asking you for your money and then shooting you anyways. One of a new breed of successful, edgy poets, Gale is unwilling to soft-soap the way the world works. These poems are tingling, raw, and clouded with sadness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932195170
Publisher:	Tupelo Press
Publication date:	10/15/2004
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x (h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Kate Gale received her doctorate in English literature from Claremont Graduate University in English literature. She teaches at California State University Dominguez Hills and is Managing Editor of Red Hen Press. She wrote the libretto to the opera "Rio de Sangre," as well as four previous books of poetry, one children's book, a novel, and edited four anthologies. She lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

	The Cemetery	11
	Crying in Front of a Man	13
	Sunflowers	14
	The Diggers	16
	Roll the Dice	18
	Elizabeth	19
	Drowning	20
	Hotel Room, Patterns of Light	21
	Coffee and Cigarettes	22
	Brewer	24
	Mating Season	26
	Demanding Barbados	27
	Crab Cake Special	28
	Newton's Bar	30
	Lilac Season in Catalina	32
	Blue Heron, Chaos	33
	Jagged Pieces of Language	34
	Blue Russians	37
	Marriage to an Artist	38
	Happily Ever After	40
	Daughter	42
	Son	43
	Foreign Objects So Close to Home	44
	Direct Action	46
	Necessary Solitude	47
	Baby Powder	48
	Pillar of Salt	49
	Modele	50
	Shattering Blind Windows	52
	Goldenrod	53
	The Prisoner's Wings	54
	Mulholland Drive	56
	Solomon's Problem	57
	Tequila	58
	Thursdays I Spend by The Window	60
	The Boxer	61
	Dominoes	62
	What Jamie Saw	64
	Lunar Contamination	65
	The Night I Saw Jesus	66
	Ecstasy	67
	Winter Melons	68
	Sphere	70