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Title Ladies, start your engines : women writers on cars and the road / edited by Elinor Nauen.

Imprint Boston : Faber and Faber, 1996.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.0108356 L124s 1996    ---  Available
Description xvi, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents 585 / Emily Dickinson -- This darknight speed / Eloise Klein Healy -- hwy 30 / Carol Masters -- from One writer's beginnings / Eudora Welty -- from By motor to the Golden Gate / Emily Post -- The family car / Kate Culkin -- ballad of a bad boy / Patti Smith -- Fast lanes / Jayne Anne Phillips -- Born again at the golden nozzle ; Wild women on motorcycles / Margaret C. Szumowski -- On two wheels / Melissa Holbrook Pierson -- Down the road / Martha Collins -- A poem like an automobile can take you anywhere / Lynn Emanuel -- The tucker torpedo / Elinor Nauen -- Autumn drive / Jeredith Merrin -- Song / Adrienne Rich -- The hard road / Louise McNeill -- American roads / Freya Manfred -- Why some nights I go to bed without undressing / Elisavietta Ritchie -- Country drive-in / Josephine Jacobsen -- Big black car / Lynn Emanuel -- A meeting on the highway / Paula Sharp -- Looking out, a sailor / Eileen Myles -- Poem ending with three lines of Wordsworth's / Gail Mazur -- All the carefully measured seconds / Josephine Redlin -- In the driver's seat / Norma Harrs -- from Counting backward / Karen Latuchie -- Michael / Linda Kittell -- Ruth Levy, me, Nassau / Denise McCluggage -- World of heroes / Anna Kavan -- Berlin, a fast car, nightmares / Lesley Hazelton -- Run, rabbit, run / Jill Amadio -- You can't spell mess without EMS / Maggie Dubris -- Paleface ; Ode to my car / Hettie Jones -- Jurassic / Anne Waldman -- Driving the central valley / Marcia Lawther -- California driving / Viola Weinberg -- You should have been here an hour ago / Deanne Stillman -- Jump cabling / Linda Pastan -- Midas muffler / Katharine Harer -- Changing the oil / Eloise Klein Healy -- Have femme will travel / Leslea Newman -- Hey! taxi! / Edna Ferber -- First ticket / Debra Bruce -- Once I threw up down my blouse / Susan Firer -- Freedom in feet / Cheryl Fish -- One of life's passengers / Oona Short -- Stickshift / Linda Mizejewski -- Apricots / Lisa Bernstein (Lisa B) -- The big deep voice of God / Mary A. Koncel -- The life you save may be your own / Flannery O'Connor -- Lessons in steering / Vivette J. Kady -- "A man is always saying to me" ; The confession / Maureen Owen -- Driving into rapture / L.R. Berger -- The length of a state / Alexis Quinlan -- Sunday night, driving home / Judy Goldman -- Vacation, 1969 / Dorothy Barresi -- After Tsang Chih / Alice Notley -- The silver DeSoto / Patty Lou Floyd -- from The fabled shore / Rose Macaulay -- from A motor-flight through France / Edith Wharton -- Cars I have known / Carolyn Cassady -- Car pastures: Indiana 1963 / Kalia Doner -- Trojan / Elinor Nauen -- Desire / Gail Mazur -- This sure isn't the Pennsylvania Turnpike / Pansy Maurer-Alvarez -- Rot / Joy Williams
Subject Automobiles -- Fiction.
Women automobile drivers -- Fiction.
Short stories, American.
American fiction -- Women authors.
Automobile driving -- Fiction.
Automobile travel -- Fiction.
Women travelers -- Fiction.
Women automobile drivers.
Automobile driving.
Automobile travel.
Automobiles.
Added Author Nauen, Elinor.
ISBN 0571198953 (cloth)
9780571198955 (cloth)

 
    
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