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Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 94 p. ; 22 cm. ISBN 9781933149271, 1933149272 OCLC 216936967 LCCN 2008050002 LC PS3569.U13 H38 2009 stiff paper wrappers ; In this third collection, award-winning poet Adrienne Su reflects deeply about the circumstances in which people are forced to remake themselves: as parents, as immigrants, as people whose marriages have ended, as people who've wound up in a place they never intended to settle. ; Contents: The Pen -- On Not Writing in Cafés -- Love -- The Countdown -- Post -- The Grave -- Inheritance -- Middle of Nowhere -- In Spite of Great Difficulty -- Some Grandmothers -- The Love Boat -- The Women and the Girls -- Why It Happened -- Double Happiness -- Breakup -- In the Wake -- The Amazing Part -- Doglessness -- Ode to a Lipstick -- T. J. Maxx -- II -- Having It All -- Fricassee au Poulet -- March Comes In Like a Lion -- 1989 -- Knowledge -- Even the Overachievers Had Barbies -- Reading -- Men Alone -- Housekeeping -- The Slightest Sign -- In Labor -- Goddess / Sybil / Lactation Consultant -- The Baby Years -- Child -- Imagining China -- The Re-Education of the Intellectuals -- ABC -- In the Country -- Afterwards -- III -- Summer -- Georgia -- The Outer Cape -- Harvard -- The Yoga Class -- The Starving-Artist Years -- Late Twenties -- The Brain Goddess and the Sex Goddess Meet at Macy's -- Animal Mornings -- Sestina -- The Rift -- Takeout -- Witness -- The Muse as Middle-Aged Man -- Renunciation -- Chinese, a found poem -- In the New World -- His Father's Son -- Exchange -- Nobody Said -- Acknowledgments ; FINE. Book.…