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Slouching toward Nirvana: new poems
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Publication Date
[2005]
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
A 4th of July in the early 30's 3 --
Without stress or agony 9 --
My close call 12 --
Clothes cost money 13 --
An easy way to die 17 --
We have hand guns around here 19 --
Making do 20 --
Rare indeed 27 --
The Poet 28 --
Bolero 31 --
A winter memory 34 --
Living in a great big way 36 --
Then and now 37 --
How did they get their job? 44 --
Paper and people 45 --
Writer's block 49 --
Disorder and early sorrow 51 --
In this place 54 --
The uninitiated 55 --
Cicada 57 --
Never interrupt a writer at work 58 --
Oh my 59 --
Meeting them 60 --
No eulogies, please 62 --
Finality 64 --
The machinery of loss 65 --
Damsels of the night 69 --
Forewarned 74 --
She lost weight 75 --
Military surplus 76 --
A difficult woman 79 --
Talk 81 --
Where the action is real 83 --
Academy Award? 86 --
Beach boys 88 --
I'm no good 90 --
Friend of the family 92 --
Solving a crime before it begins 94 --
Note for my wall 96 --
The wine that roared 97 --
2:07 a.m. 101 --
A clean, well-lighted place 105 --
Do we really care? 108 --
For crying out loud 111 --
High school girls 113 --
Emergency 115 --
For a woman who might some day become a nun 116 --
Some people ask for it 117 --
Against the Window pane 119 --
An answer to a day's worth of mail 121 --
New York, New York 122 --
The knife Waltz 125 --
Dusty shoes 126 --
Vulgar poem 128 --
This one 134 --
The big lonely night 140 --
One a.m. 145 --
The curse 147 --
With his awful teeth 149 --
Golden boy 151 --
Surreal tangerines 153 --
Little magazines and poetry chapbooks 155 --
My buddy 156 --
Last Friday night 158 --
Open here 160 --
A name is nothing if the named is nothing 161 --
The stupidest thing I ever did 163 --
You can't make a lion out of a butterfly 165 --
I don't know about you but 168 --
It's a drag just breathing 172 --
A hard lesson 175 --
A conversation to remember 177 --
Picture show 178 --
He played first base 179 --
The suicide kid 181 --
Snake eyes and faulty screams 183 --
I fought them from the moment I saw light 184 --
Now, Ezra 187 --
Concession 189 --
It 190 --
Terror 191 --
My rosy ass 193 --
This is a bitter poem 196 --
Poem for nobody 199 --
Checkmate 201 --
The Tide 202 --
To hell and back 210 --
Something's knocking at the door 212 --
Regardless 214 --
The dandy 219 --
I am a mole 221 --
Somebody else 222 --
IBM Selectric 224 --
Why oh why and oh why not? 227 --
Movies 228 --
No luck at all 229 --
Good news 232 --
Bedpan nightmare 234 --
Robert 237 --
Private screenings 239 --
As you slow down the mermaids look the other way 241 --
Something new 243 --
The swimming pool 244 --
The great writer 246 --
I used to think 247 --
From the department of health 249 --
Working out 251 --
My friend William Burroughs 252 --
A note upon starvation 254 --
Poem for my 70th birthday 256 --
You'll never know 257 --
Joe 259 --
Top gun 263 --
It's strange 264 --
Explosion 266 --
Small talk 268 --
Basic 270.
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ISBN
9780060577032
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