A fourth installment of a five-part collection of previously unpublished poetic works by the influential contemporary American author of Pulp and Women offers insight into his views on mentoring, mortality, and the passage of time. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Taal / Language : English

Inhoudsopgave:

I live near the slaughterhouse and am ill with thriving.
come on in!		3
nothing but a scarf		4
literary chitchat		9
this machine is a fountain		11
200 years		12
residue		16
Coronado Street: 1954		19
a vision		20
cut-rate drugstore: 4:30 p.m.		22
you can`t tell a turkey by its feathers		24
too early!		26
the green Cadillac		28
I`m not all-knowing but...		31
in the clubhouse		34
a famished orphan sits somewhere in the mind		35
form letter		36
first family		38
a real thing, a good woman		40
a child`s bedtime story		42
working out in Hades		43
half-a-goldfish		45
lousy mail		47
from the Dept. of English		48
and poems have too		49
poets to the rescue		50
red hot mail		53
some personal thoughts		57
he`s a dog		58
tremor		61
my Mexican buddy		63
strangers at the racetrack		65
will you tiptoe through the tulips with me?		67
the novel life		70
thanks for your help		72
I have continued regardless		74
balloons		77
moving toward the dark		79
the real thing		81
she looked at me and asked, did you? did you? did you?
on the cuff		85
alone again		89
fooling Marie (the poem)		91
the copulation blues		94
the faithful wife		96
once in a while		102
another high-roller		106
the fucking horses		107
hello there!		110
the fuck-master		111
my personal psychologist		113
jealousy		114
her guy		116
dead poet`s wife		117
scrambled legs		119
endless love		121
down and out on the boardwalk		123
sex sister		128
to the ladies no longer here		131
the nude dancer		133
Ma Barker loves me		135
here we go again		139
do you believe that a man can be taught to write?		141
hail and farewell		143
weep		144
it`s a lonely world of frightened people.
a note upon modern poesy		147
the end of an era		149
Paris in the spring		159
alone in this chair		163
talking about the poets		165
was Li Po wrong?		168
operator		170
a note from Hades in the mailbox		171
on the sunny banks of the university		172
vacation in Greece		174
the spill		176
the last salamander		179
learning the ropes		180
bombed away		181
the swimming pool will be going here		183
a bright boy		185
my turn		192
skinny-dipping		193
a close call		195
like a rock		197
the waitress at the yogurt shop		198
one out in the minor leagues		201
the little girls hissed		206
I dreamt		209
the old couple next door		211
men without women		213
the `Beats`		217
hurry slowly		220
hello and goodbye		222
I will never have a house in the valley with little stone men on the lawn.
don`t call me, I`ll call you		227
taking the 8 count		230
going going gone		232
this is where they come for what`s left of your soul		235
hot night		236
the x-bum		238
something cares		240
my cats		242
6:30 a.m.		244
what I need		245
gender benders		246
after many nights		248
good morning, how are you?		250
a reader of my work		251
Sumatra Cum Laude		253
the disease of existence		255
another comeback		257
two nights before my 72nd birthday		258
have we come to this?		260
old poem		262
older		266
closing time		268
no leaders, please		270
everything hurts		271
husk		273
my song		274
cancer		275
blue		276
twilight musings		277
mind and heart		278

Extra informatie:  Paperback / softback 279 pagina's Januari 2007 326 gram 229 x 152 x 25 mm Ecco Pr

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