And To Think She Kissed Me At 15th and U

And To Think She Kissed Me At 15th and U is a collection of original poems and essays derived from autobiographical sources. From growing up in the 1960s with an alcoholic father to living as a lesbian to surviving the deaths of many family members and friends these verbal dioramas present tiny windows into the author's pain, fears, and joys. The collection is divided into five sections: "Misspent Youth," which explores the experience of female adolescence; "Natural History," which describes the author's experiences with animals and the animal kingdom, "My Mother's Due (Owed to My Mother)," which chronicles and describes the death of the author's mother; "In Memoriam," which focuses on other important losses; and "Living Together and Other Everyday Occurrences," which contains poems about love, lust, and relationships.