Eve's Striptease
Eve's Striptease
JULIA KASDORF
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 1998
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0
Pages: 96
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkgw0
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Eve's Striptease
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"You have to admire a poet who can take an onion, the flu, houseguests, migraines, and a nurse's coat and turn them in to poetry. Of course, Kasdorf is using the concrete to get a deeper things: there's an amazement at life in these poems, and a hard-headed determination to make it work." --Library Journal "It may initially seem as though Kasdorf has meant to shock the home folks with her new book. Think of her overall themes: Mennonites and sex, a novel connection. Yet Eve's Striptease uses these two lenses to focus on the world. However, viewing the book only in terms of ethnicity and biology trivializes what is a significant work by a brilliant young poet. . . . It is a book about coming to terms with one's sexuality and how that affects one's place in the world." --Pittsburgh Quarterly "Most readers will be grateful for the gift outright of Kasdorf's achingly beautiful language of desire and of a "full store" of unavoidable passings from discovery to dark discovery and from expectations and surprises of childhood to retrospections and surprises of adulthood." --Mennonite Quarterly Review "Crosshatched by body, spirit, and the relation between them; animated by bright instinctive exchanges between carnal and religious zones of experience; driven by an honest, explicitly female consciousness of what 'animal' and 'soul' might mean, the poems in Eve's Striptease keep pace with a considered life in its search for some consoling 'homeliness' in the world." --Eamon Grennan Julia Kasdorf grew up in Western Pennsylvania. Her previous collection, Sleeping Preacher, was the winner of the 1991 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was awarded the 1993 Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for New Writing. Eve's Striptease was named one of Library Journal's Top 20 Best Poetry Books of 1998. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and various anthologies and journals. She teaches at Messiah college and lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. I-V)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. VI-VIII)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.2
  3. I. FIRST GESTURES
    • First Gestures
      First Gestures (pp. 3-4)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.3
    • Freight
      Freight (pp. 5-6)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.4
    • The Sun Lover
      The Sun Lover (pp. 7-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.5
    • Sinning
      Sinning (pp. 9-9)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.6
    • Flu
      Flu (pp. 10-11)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.7
    • Ghost
      Ghost (pp. 12-13)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.8
    • A Pass
      A Pass (pp. 14-15)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.9
    • Bulbs
      Bulbs (pp. 16-17)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.10
    • Onion, Fruit of Grace
      Onion, Fruit of Grace (pp. 18-18)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.11
    • The Knowledge of Good and Evil
      The Knowledge of Good and Evil (pp. 19-20)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.12
    • Eve’s Striptease
      Eve’s Striptease (pp. 21-22)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.13
    • Mother Love
      Mother Love (pp. 23-24)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.14
    • The Secrets of Marriage
      The Secrets of Marriage (pp. 25-26)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.15
    • Storm
      Storm (pp. 27-27)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.16
    • Word to Measure Space
      Word to Measure Space (pp. 28-28)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.17
    • Definition: To Fix
      Definition: To Fix (pp. 29-30)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.18
    • Sixth Anniversary
      Sixth Anniversary (pp. 31-32)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.19
    • The New Place
      The New Place (pp. 33-33)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.20
    • Wife of a Resident Alien
      Wife of a Resident Alien (pp. 34-35)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.21
    • Lesson of Hard-Shelled Creatures
      Lesson of Hard-Shelled Creatures (pp. 36-37)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.22
    • Living Large
      Living Large (pp. 38-39)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.23
    • Before Dawn in October
      Before Dawn in October (pp. 40-40)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.24
    • Our Last Neighborhood in Brooklyn
      Our Last Neighborhood in Brooklyn (pp. 41-42)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.25
    • Loud
      Loud (pp. 43-44)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.26
    • On Leaving Brooklyn
      On Leaving Brooklyn (pp. 45-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.27
  4. II. MAP OF THE KNOWN WORLD
    • The Use of Allusion
      The Use of Allusion (pp. 49-49)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.28
    • Map of the Known World
      Map of the Known World (pp. 50-51)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.29
    • July 1969
      July 1969 (pp. 52-52)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.30
    • Ladies’ Night at the Turkish and Russian Baths
      Ladies’ Night at the Turkish and Russian Baths (pp. 53-54)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.31
    • Coat of a Visiting Nurse
      Coat of a Visiting Nurse (pp. 55-55)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.32
    • Lymphoma
      Lymphoma (pp. 56-57)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.33
    • Flammable Skirts Recalled
      Flammable Skirts Recalled (pp. 58-58)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.34
    • Answer
      Answer (pp. 59-59)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.35
    • Why I Ran
      Why I Ran (pp. 60-61)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.36
    • How It Looks from South Brooklyn
      How It Looks from South Brooklyn (pp. 62-63)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.37
    • To Honor the Dead
      To Honor the Dead (pp. 64-65)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.38
    • Houseguest Confession
      Houseguest Confession (pp. 66-67)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.39
    • Brooklyn Bridge Showing Painters on Suspenders, 1914
      Brooklyn Bridge Showing Painters on Suspenders, 1914 (pp. 68-69)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.40
    • The Streak
      The Streak (pp. 70-70)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.41
    • Migraines, for Dad
      Migraines, for Dad (pp. 71-71)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.42
    • Learning the Names
      Learning the Names (pp. 72-72)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.43
    • How My Father Learned English
      How My Father Learned English (pp. 73-73)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.44
    • Letter to Timothy Russell from Lewisburg
      Letter to Timothy Russell from Lewisburg (pp. 74-74)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.45
    • Black Dress
      Black Dress (pp. 75-76)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.46
    • Eve’s Curse
      Eve’s Curse (pp. 77-77)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.47
    • Thinking of Certain Mennonite Women
      Thinking of Certain Mennonite Women (pp. 78-79)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.48
    • Boustrophedon
      Boustrophedon (pp. 80-81)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.49
    • First Bird
      First Bird (pp. 82-82)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.50
    • Flying Lesson
      Flying Lesson (pp. 83-84)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.51
  5. Acknowledgments
    Acknowledgments (pp. 85-85)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.52
  6. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 86-88)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkgw0.53