According to Her Contours [Hardcover]

Nancy Boutilier (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 087685885X | ISBN-13: 978-0876858851 | Publication Date: December 1992 | Edition: First edition.

Fiction. Poetry. Nancy Boutillier spent her childhood in black high-top sneakers. She told her fifth-grade teacher she was going to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, and when she realized she wasn't tall enough, she set her sights on being a poet. Nancy completed Basic Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky; though a sharpshooter with an M-16 rifle, she still tends to dangle modifiers. She is currently a high-school English teacher, officiates basketball games and writes during half-time. She contributes regularly to the Bay Area Reporter, and her work has also appeared in Sphere, OUT/LOOK, Deneuve, and Girljock. Nancy hopes she is finally tall enough.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

All Tenderness
Anger As An Accessory
Anorexic's Profile
Answers To Nobody's Prayers
Because They Are Mine
Behind The Billboards
Beyond Biology
Censorship's Enemy
The Changing Of Seasons
Charting Progress
A Child's Logic
Choices
The Climb
Coaxing My Uterus
Collector
The Common Cold
Community Building
Counting The Birds In Your Hand
The Dancer
Deisregarding Clocks
Descent
Dining With Lions
The Divine Is Here
Domestic Bliss
Double Edge
Dreaming
Eulogy For A Fallen Friend
Evenly Matched
Fasting
Final Draft
First Kiss
A Flicker Of Light
Flirtation
The Fortunate Ones
Ghost Stories
Giving A Daughter Away
Good Housekeeping
Her Toes
Hooked
Hotshot
How I Want It
How To Be A Militant Woman
I Am Not Outrageous
I Only Walk His Dog
I Was Lucky
I Will Feed Sea Gulls
If The Pentagon Had A Price Club
Jonestown
The Journey
Kinship
Knowing Who I Am
The Language Of Bottles
The Lap Of Wisdom
Late Harvest
Legacies
Losing Patience
The Moment Of Take
The Muse
My Morning Jog
New World
New Year's Resolution
No Justice
Objictively Speaking
An Obscene Phone Call
Ocean Air
Outgrowing The Fairy Tale
The Persistence Of Pink
Promises To Myself
Proverb
Rejection
Remembering Nana
Resolution In Moving On
Road Trips
Sister Lucinda Taught Math
Sistervoice
Switch Hitting
Syzygy
Taking Flight
Thanksgiving
They Released Mandela
Thighs I Have Known
This Beautiful
To My Rapist
To Throw Like A Boy
The Truth About High Heels
Two Approches To A Single Problem
Voices Like Frying Pans
Waxing And Waning
Wedding Vows
Weekends At The White House
What Grandpa Saw
What I Learned In Girl Scouts
What's A Nice Girl Doing?
When The Wonen Huddle
The White Whale Speaks
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press; First edition. edition (December 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087685885X
• ISBN-13: 978-0876858851
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,898,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some real gems in this book, January 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: According to Her Contours (Paperback)

This is a truly wonderful book of poetry. I borrowed it from a college friend eight years ago, and NEVER RETURNED IT. I know, that's really rude, but every time I think about returning it, I can't bear to part with it. Now that I can buy it from Amazon.com, I'll finally return my friend's copy. "The Truth About High Heels" is my absolute favorite Poem in the book. Nancy has a wonderful gift of translating life into words. I highly recommend this book.