false 715285 1 Billie Livingston's poems drive straight for the sharp edges--from the rough, self-assured and brash voice of a woman who poses nude at seventeen while considering the 40-year-old photographer as her guinea pig, to the confidante of relatives and friends grappling with the torturing frustration of love, sexuality, adultery and death.<br><br>These jagged realities also collide with the innocence of childhood--a toddler being offered LSD by the next-door neighbor, a Catholic schoolgirl being dropped into the frontlines of a fierce abortion protest and a young woman trying to relax with a book in a park but instead facing an unwelcome exposure. Livingston also includes a selection of poems written from the disparate voices of a self-destructive family that eventually developed into her popular novel. 701537 2001 The Chick at the Back of the Church total:5|5:2|4:2|3:1| 5 21 5 1 5 0 false false Mon Sep 15 12:04:07 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 12:05:08 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Feb 27 12:01:24 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 12:01:31 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 15 21:53:33 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 21:53:36 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Dec 16 16:31:24 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 16:31:24 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Tue Aug 21 18:01:15 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 18:01:15 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=715285