Domestic Interior
by Stephanie Brown
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
eISBN: 978-0-8229-9073-4 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5997-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3552.R723D66 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.5422
eISBN: 978-0-8229-9073-4 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5997-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3552.R723D66 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.5422
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The poems in Domestic Interior describe the private and sometimes secret spaces of marriage, parenthood, and knowledge.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Stephanie Brown is the author of Allegory of the Supermarket. She has published numerous poems in the American Poetry Review, and her work has been selected for the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation; Body Electric: Twenty-Five Years of America's Best Poetry; and four editions of The Best American Poetry. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Brown is a public library branch manager in Orange County, California.
REVIEWS
”The words and stanzas of each of her poems are arranged perfectly, and the order of her works is stitched into a solid, enjoyable compilation. . . . Relevant, realistic, extremely beautiful, and accessible.”
—The Feminist Review
—The Feminist Review
"Stephanie Brown is a poetic force to be reckoned with. After the release of Allegory of the Supemarket, it is difficult to imagine a follow-up as strong as her first collection. Domestic Interior delivers."
--Ballard Street Poetry Journal
"In her second book, Brown cuts through pretension with a voice like a whip. These poems engage because they depict human relationships with a profound honesty."
--Library Journal
--Library Journal
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
I. Neighbors
I Observe This Morphic Field
Domestic Interior
Private School
Bougainvillea
Neighbors in Their Own Bunkers
How Could We Decorate a Haunted House?
Calm Down!
Library
Saying Good-bye to the World War II Generation
No Irish Need Apply
Massachusetts
II. Education
“Liking Something Is Not Enough”
Diagnosis: Psychosis
Time, Waste of
See, e.g., Hildegarde, Fatima, Blake, McLuhan
Invective
Prescription Pills
Snobs
Marble Obelisk
Education
III. Folie à Deux
Pension, Venezia
Ten Years
The Temper
The Alcoholic and the Ball and Chain
Legal Separation
John Barleycorn
After the End, Hope for the Beginning
Peace
IV. Not Too Serious
Self-Portrait at the End of the First Half of My Life
Not Too Serious
The Staff Lounge
The Divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Moore
Camp
The Satanists Next Door
Supervision
Husbandry
Dolphins
Roommates: Noblesse Oblige, Sprezzatura, and Gin Lane
The Family Jewels
V. The Mother
Hope for the Hopeless
Indoors
The Devouring Father
Keeping
Coloring Book
St. Dymphna
Black and White
“The Abyss Stares Back at You”
The World Will Ask for Your Greed, Envy, and Sloth
Good-bye
Souls in Purgatory
The Mother Becomes the Mother of Herself as Well
Notes
Acknowledgments
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