Authors: Toni Mirosevich
ISBN-13: 9781563410819, ISBN-10: 1563410818
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Firebrand Books
Date Published: October 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)
To write about what it is like to grow up in a working-class commercial fishing family, work as a nontraditional laborer in the physical trades, labor in a marriage and then come out, emerge from the assumption of excellent health into the reality of chronic illness, return to school, become a writer and a teacher of writing - and through it all love the ones you love, be sustained by them - requires more than one voice, more than one form. In The Rooms We Make Our Own, Toni Mirosevich does just this. She builds the complex structure of her lesbian experience section by section, constructing her life so that its framework is exposed for us to read. Poetry shares the space with fiction, "interrupting" each other as events in real life do.
Gandhi Joins The Work Force | 15 | |
Madonna Joins The Work Force | 17 | |
Betty Crocker Joins The Work Force | 19 | |
Hermes Joins The Work Force | 21 | |
Friday Joins The Work Force | 23 | |
Ophelia Joins The Work Force | 25 | |
Virginia Woolf Joins The Work Force | 27 | |
White Sandals | 29 | |
Loaves And Fishes | 39 | |
Smelt | 41 | |
Bottles | 43 | |
Trout | 44 | |
Ink Fish | 46 | |
The History Of Fabric | 48 | |
Steuben | 49 | |
Pink Harvest | 51 | |
What The Tetas Promise | 53 | |
Where You Go For Comfort | 56 | |
Auto Body | 61 | |
How To Use The Sick | 63 | |
Inventory | 65 | |
Pilgrimage | 67 | |
Life After Western Medicine | 69 | |
Bread-and-Butter Note | 71 | |
Before Daily Care Strikes | 73 | |
What Helen Knows | 74 | |
Dog Tales | 76 | |
Veering | 87 | |
Back When | 90 | |
Rough Translation | 93 | |
Tools Of The Trade | 95 | |
Some Grand Fate | 97 | |
Silent Witness | 99 | |
Bacchanal | 102 | |
The Mary Spectrum | 104 | |
Balance | 106 |