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Filibuster to Delay a Kiss: And Other Poems
By Courtney Queeney
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Random House, 82 pages, $19.95
The poems in this collection by Chicago native Courtney Queeney expose truths of maturing into adulthood from the throes of adolescence. The most energetic, eloquent poems explore the notion of maternal ambivalence. One poem, “No-Man’s-Land,” begins: “Family was a whitewashed,/milk-toothed word/that couldn’t account for the mother/who wept and burnt/the roast if the floor was dirty.”