I Lie Here in a Strange Girl’s Apartment (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Brautigan
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Girls, 1960’s, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Women, Skin
The Poem
Like almost all of Richard Brautigan’s poems, “I Lie Here in a Strange Girl’s Apartment” is short (three stanzas, fourteen lines) and written in free verse. The title, which is also the first line, not only provides the setting of the poem but also suggests the dynamic that is the subject of the narrator’s meditation: the narrator as he sees himself in uncomfortable relation to this “strange” woman. The language of the poem, characteristic of Brautigan’s style, is colloquial and deceptively direct—though the final stanza makes it clear that the...
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