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Garrison, Deborah.

A working girl can't win and other poems / Deborah Garrison.

1st ed.

New York : Random House, ©1998.

ix, 61 pages ; 21 cm

Highly readable poems--personal yet universal--about love and work in the life of a young woman, by a popular "New Yorker" writer and editor. These poems concern the poet's father's untimely death, her office life, her triumphs and disappointments in love, and her imaginative escape from the workaday world. Taken together, they form a compelling psychological story.

Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Poetry.

Women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- Poetry.

City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Saying Yes to a Drink -- Father, R.I.P., Sums Me Up at Twenty-Three -- Long Weekend at Your House -- November on Her Way -- She Was Waiting to Be Told -- She Thinks of Him on Her Birthday -- An Idle Thought -- On the Road to Getting You -- The Firemen -- 3:00 A.M. Comedy -- The Boss -- A Working Girl Can't Win -- The Widow's Sex Life -- I Answer Your Question with a Question -- You Prune Your List in Summer -- Her Majesty Loses Her Touch -- Maybe There's No Going Back -- Please Fire Me -- Superior -- Fight Song -- The Warning -- Happily Married -- Perfectionist on the Beach -- Atlantic Wind -- A Friendship Enters Phase II -- A Kiss -- Husband, Not at Home -- Worked Late on a Tuesday Night.

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