Oates's fifth volume of poems tells of the central concerns of everyday lives, the metamorphoses undergone in life and death, and the merging of the individual self with others.
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Mid-morning Monday she is staringpeaceful as the rain in that shallow back yardshe wears flannel bedroom slippersshe is sipping coffeeshe is thinking -- Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money
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(@lsupress, 1 January 1978, hardback, 96 pages, bought from @AmazonUK)
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I really enjoyed Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money. This is the best of JCO's earlier collection. The collection is split into five thematically linked sections. I enjoyed the poems in the first section, named after the title poem the best. The poems cover wide range of ideas and themes. I enjoyed all of the poems. I especially enjoyed the title poem, Lovers Asleep, The Suicide, Public Outcry and The Creation. I'd recommend this.