All-American Girl

'All-American Girl is a lively mix of poems that reflect Robin Becker's sexual and social identity in startling and often magically apt metaphors. The Philadelphia of her girlhood, her ancestral links to the shtetls of Eastern Europe, the mesas of New Mexico, her loved landscape, Italy... meet and meld in surprising, satisfying juxtapositions. This is Robing Becker's best work to date.' As said by Maxine Kumin.

Shopping

3

(2)

The Crypto-Jews

5

(1)

My Grandmother's Crystal Ball

6

(1)

The Mystery, Then the Facts

7

(2)

Santo Domingo Feast Day

9

(1)

The Elimination of First Thoughts

10

(1)

A History of Sexual Preference

11

(2)

The Star Show

13

(3)

Solar

16

(2)

Brisk Autumn and the Querulous Trees

18

(1)

We Thought of Each Other as Food

19

(1)

Port-au-Prince, 1960

20

(2)

Quaker Meeting, the Sixties

22

(2)

Villanelle for a Lesbian Mom

24

(1)

In Pietrasanta

25

(2)

Haircut on Via di Mezzo

27

(2)

Family Romance

29

(2)

Peter Pan in North America

31

(2)

Spiritual Morning

33

(1)

Opals

34

(1)

Too Jewish

35

(1)

Telling Them Apart

36

(1)

Risk

37

(1)

Contradancing in Nelson, N.H.

38

(3)

The Woman Question

41

(2)

When Someone Dies Young

43

(1)

Bicycle Days

44

(3)

The Ribbon

47

(1)

Hold Back

48

(2)

Midnight Swim

50

(1)

Dreaming at the Rexall Drug

51

(2)

Meeting the Gaze of the Great Horned Owl

53

(2)

From Taos to Santa Fe

55

(3)

The New Year

58

(1)

Yom Kippur, Taos, New Mexico

59

(2)

Kindness

61

(1)

Death of the Owl

62

(2)

The Roast Chicken

64

(3)

Notes

67

(2)

Acknowledgments

69

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