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1 online resource (81 pages) |
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Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Contents -- Part I -- The Rain -- The Polka-Dot Shirt -- The Japanese Rooms -- How to Sit in a Café -- Prescription for Insomniacs -- What Hemingway Learned from Cézanne -- The Institute of Cool -- A Nazi in Retirement -- The Blue Period -- Lifesaving -- Part II -- Coronado Rises in the Stirrups -- All Seas Belong to Neruda -- Hitler�s Barber -- Ferlinghetti�s Ears -- Custer -- Three Kings -- With Fitzgerald along the C�te d�Azur -- Mornings with Freud -- The Psychic Geography of Atlantis -- III -- Household Buddhas |
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A Saint for YouThe Shape of the Human Soul -- Infant -- Teaching a Child the Art of Confession -- The Machinery of the Soul -- Martyr -- The Wasted Day -- On Finding a Landscape I Painted as a Child -- The Buddha of Arithmetic -- IV -- Country Music -- Passing Through a Small Town -- Tornado -- The American Dream -- Bomb Shelter -- Shooting the Horse -- Tabloid Headlines -- Critic -- A Thousand Miles from Nowhere -- Reading to the Blind Man -- May I Interest You? -- Accordion Lessons -- The Id -- Testicles -- V -- Afternoon Nap |
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VisitationGraveyard -- The Ambassador of the Dead -- The Art of Forgetting -- Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night -- The Slaves of My Ancestors -- Armor -- The Funeral of the Moon -- Warehouse -- Old Age -- Mushrooms -- High Water Mark -- The Immortal -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool. Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if only he'd leaned his weight into the razor. An oblivious Coronado narrowly avoids an ambush on the American plains. Freud lecherously lifts the skirt of a Mexican housekeeper who has far too much work to be bothered by "a pillar of modern thought. Or just some dirty old man."In lesser hands such disparate elements might fly wildly out of control. But |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Prose poems, American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Prose poems, American
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| Genre/Form |
prose poems.
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Prose poems
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Prose poems.
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Poèmes en prose.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822980148 |
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0822980142 |
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