My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
Daisy Fried
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 2006
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf
Pages: 80
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zw9mf
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My Brother is Getting Arrested Again
Book Description:

My Brother Is Getting Arrested Againcelebrates the contradictions and quandaries of contemporary American life. These subversive, frequently self-mocking narrative poems are by turns funny and serious, book-smart and street-smart, lyrical and colloquial. Set in Philadelphia, Paris and New Jersey, the poems are at ease with sex happiness and sex trouble, girl-talk and grownup married life, genre parody and antiwar politics, family warfare and family love. Unsentimental but full of emotion, Daisy Fried's new collection, a finalist for the 2005 James Laughlin Prize, is unforgettable.

eISBN: 978-0-8229-9089-5
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. [i]-[vi])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. [vii]-[viii])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.2
  3. I.
    • Cordless
      Cordless (pp. 3-4)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.3
    • Doll Ritual
      Doll Ritual (pp. 5-5)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.4
    • American Brass
      American Brass (pp. 6-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.5
    • Neat Hair
      Neat Hair (pp. 9-9)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.6
    • Shooting Kinesha
      Shooting Kinesha (pp. 10-13)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.7
    • Best of Show
      Best of Show (pp. 14-15)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.8
    • Seven Years
      Seven Years (pp. 16-16)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.9

      These cold days when the insane sky’s clear, heat poofs away beyond its net of edible blue. My cat folds, flops across the laundry steps. Flags the size of jeans pockets flip-flap affixed to rowhouse fronts. The nicest, cleanest hands reach to switch out lights in stores: futons, ring trays, eyeglasses, dresses, go dark. “The bed is not very big.” Cold or no there are fathers calling mothers and children walking home or out; also those of us who are neither father nor mother and have forgotten the complicated unchosen knits and methods of being somebody’s child. Hires Root Beer...

    • Jubilate South Philly: City 14
      Jubilate South Philly: City 14 (pp. 17-19)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.10
    • Broken Radios
      Broken Radios (pp. 20-20)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.11
    • Gal Noir
      Gal Noir (pp. 21-22)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.12
    • The Falling
      The Falling (pp. 23-24)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.13
  4. II.
    • Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie and the Negro Painter
      Aunt Leah, Aunt Sophie and the Negro Painter (pp. 27-29)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.14
    • The Hawk
      The Hawk (pp. 30-30)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.15
    • Running while Screaming
      Running while Screaming (pp. 31-32)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.16
    • The Drunkard’s Bar
      The Drunkard’s Bar (pp. 33-34)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.17
    • Go to Your Room
      Go to Your Room (pp. 35-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.18
    • Empty Woman
      Empty Woman (pp. 37-38)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.19
    • At Advent, the Waiting Room
      At Advent, the Waiting Room (pp. 39-39)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.20
    • Sugar
      Sugar (pp. 40-41)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.21
    • First Boyfriend, 14
      First Boyfriend, 14 (pp. 42-42)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.22
    • Some Loud Men, Some Women
      Some Loud Men, Some Women (pp. 43-44)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.23
    • Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an Asshole
      Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an Asshole (pp. 45-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.24
    • Chicken Factory
      Chicken Factory (pp. 47-48)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.25
  5. III.
    • My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again
      My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again (pp. 51-53)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.26
    • Used One Speed, Princeton
      Used One Speed, Princeton (pp. 54-54)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.27
    • Stealing from Lehigh Dairy
      Stealing from Lehigh Dairy (pp. 55-57)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.28
    • Three Times Only
      Three Times Only (pp. 58-58)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.29
    • The Conference Notes
      The Conference Notes (pp. 59-63)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.30
    • Slack Morning, Reading Sterne for the First Time at 36, after My Husband Has Mocked Me for Years for My Omission, Princeton, Early Fall
      Slack Morning, Reading Sterne for the First Time at 36, after My Husband Has Mocked Me for Years for My Omission, Princeton, Early Fall (pp. 64-64)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.31
    • Envy
      Envy (pp. 65-67)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.32
    • In a Station of the Metro
      In a Station of the Metro (pp. 68-68)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.33
    • Death, a poem in two parts
      Death, a poem in two parts (pp. 69-70)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.34
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. 71-72)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zw9mf.35