Listening for Cactus [Paperback]

Mary McGinnis (Author)

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Acid
Another Mother
Burnt Beyond Recognition
Chinese Woman Smoking
The Dead Will Giggle
Dreaming About Nothing
Dreams
Dry Ice
Embraces
Emptiness
For Ai
For Mrs. Green Mummy
From My Eyes
Grieving
Her Natural Condition
Heroin
Homophobia In A Small Town
Hot Weather
Interview With My Mother's Suitor
Isadora Speaking
It's Your Hand
Judy
Late
Letter To Pablo Neruda
Listening For Cactus
Losing My Mother
Middle-aged Woman Talking To Her First Lover
Moon Flowers (for Joy Harjo)
Mother And Daughter
New York Sestina
Nightchoir
Not Being Able To Stop
Our First House
Patience
Plum Tea In The Desert
Reading Braille
Returning
The Secret Life Of My Mother
Seeing
Sex Between Friends
A Spell For My Sisters In Bosnia
Stop
The Struggle
Surprise
Talking With My Dead Father
Tenderness
To Think About Tiredness You Have To Let Yourself Go Underground
Untitled
We Can Laugh Or Cry
When I'm Eating Chocolate And Writing
When You Die
Where I Co Ome From
Wild Pears
Woman Eating Some Birds
Woman Talking To Herself And Drinking Tea
The Woman Who Is A Writer
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sherman Asher Publishing (July 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964419645
• ISBN-13: 978-0964419643
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,942,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry that is full of surprises, October 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Listening for Cactus (Paperback)

The first astonishing thing about this book is the title page in Braille. Unexpected and very effective --- the reader crosses into the tactile and stunningly sensuous world of the poet. Throw out your tired old sterotypes about disability and blindness because this powerful poet is completely in control of her art. You'll notice it in her startling language---full of tastes and smells and little sensory shivers--- and the way the body is utterly present in each poem. And did I mention erotic? All that exercise of the other senses (however many of them we've got) has led to arrestingly erotic poems.

Get this book. Read it aloud to a friend if you're that brave. You won't be the same.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, vivid, poetry., September 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Listening for Cactus (Paperback)

Mary McGinnis has an incredible sensibility, writes with amazing insight, sensitivity and humor.