"Incest Taboo" is from TWO AND TWO by Denise Duhamel, ©2005. Reprinted by kind permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Incest Taboo continued
Fred liked to shoot things, especially birds
Jane finally felt happy, though she knew it was wrong. |
football players make before they swoop Look at that!" Jane's father and mother |
Denise Duhamel's most recent poetry titles are Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005), Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001) and The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999). Duhamel has read her work on NPR and was a featured poet on the PBS special hosted by Bill Moyers, "Fooling with Words." Booklist has written of Duhamel's poems: "So overwhelming is her relish for life that embarrassment, or titillation when the subject is sexual, just doesn't stand a chance. Life-affirming without being treacly, Duhamel is a character who assures us the world is full of character." She teaches poetry at Florida International University in Miami.
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