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This collection is a love letter to language with poems that are drunk and filled with references to the hyperkinetic world of the twenty-first century. Yet Zeus and Hera tangle with Leda on the interstate; Ava Gardner becomes a Hindu princess; and Shiva, the Destroyer, reigns over all. English is t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hamby, Barbara, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
Colección:Pitt poetry series.
Temas:
American poetry > Women authors.
American poetry.
Poésie américaine.
FICTION > General.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry
American poetry > Women authors
Multi-User.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Part I
  • Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties that Plague Me like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory
  • Who Do Mambo
  • Working at Pam-Pamâ€?s
  • Ode on Laundry, Lester Young, and Your Last Letter
  • 9 Sonnets from the Psalms
  • A Birdman to You, Baby
  • Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris
  • Mambo Cadillac
  • Oâ€?ahu Mambo
  • Part II
  • Lingo Sonnets
  • Aloha, Dad, Au Revoir, Goodbye
  • Caliban Passes His Driving Test on the Ninth Try
  • Betty Boopâ€?s Bebop
  • Desdemona Resuscitated by Sir John Falstaff, EMTElizabeth Cady Stanton Writes the Dictionary
  • Friday Slams Crusoe
  • Ganymedeâ€?s Dream of Rosalind
  • Hope Revived: The Road to Baghdad
  • I Find an Entrance to Hell
  • Jane Austen Rewrites Hamlet with Interruptions by Russian Poets
  • Karen, David, and I Stop across the Street from the Pitti Palace
  • Lysistrata Lectures the Gods
  • Mr. Nollie Hinton Talks to Me while I Test-Drive His 1955 Studebaker
  • Nietzsche Explains the Ãœbermensch to Lois Lane
  • Olive Oyl Thinks about Quantum Theory
  • Punk Puck or Robin Goodfellow with Fender StratocasterQueen Mab Blues or Quick, Run for Cover, Sheâ€?s Reading Horace Again
  • Raskolnikov Rates the Plays
  • So Says Cleopatra, Reincarnated as a Hippie Chick, circa 1967
  • Titus Woos Titania
  • Ulysses Talks with Freud about the Underworld
  • Venus and Dogsbody, a Match Made in New Jersey
  • Whatever orAs You Like It, Part Two
  • Xerox My Heart, Three-Headed Dog
  • Yorickâ€?s Soliloquy
  • Zeus, Itâ€?s Your Leda, Sweetie Pie
  • Part III
  • All-Night Lingo Tango
  • Ode on Dictionaries
  • Ode to Odor, Ardor, and the Queenâ€?s ChickabobbooOde to Diagramming Sentences in Eighth-Grade English Class with Moonlight, Drugs, and Stars
  • Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego
  • Ode to Fear
  • Ode on Cake, Catcalls, Eggs with a Minor Scary Reference to the End of the World
  • Ode to Little Boys
  • Ode to White Peaches, Pennies, Planets, and Bijou, the Dog
  • Ode on the Letter M
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments

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