附註:Acknowledgments -- Yes -- The difference between pepsi and pope -- Lines -- The little I know about eyes -- Happy ending -- Stranger -- Grace -- How much is this poem going to cost me? -- Bangungot -- Insomnio -- The therapist's funeral -- White virgin -- Art -- Nick at nite -- Where to find feminine protection while traveling in a foreign country -- Cockroaches -- Fairy tale -- Surgery -- Scared about what was there -- I'm dealing with my pain -- Tulip -- House-sitting -- Sex with a famous poet -- Skipping breakfast -- Another poem called "sphincter" -- June 13, 1995 -- A kissing -- Noctilucae -- Husband as a second language -- The Star-Spangled Banner -- Playa Naturista.
摘要:The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" as ""José, can you see?"", which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what ""yes"" means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's ""Nick at Nite"" with a husband who grew up in the
