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In a prominent bar in Secaucus : new and selected poems, 1955-2007 /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kennedy, X. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • First confession
  • Solitary confinement
  • On a child who lived one minute
  • Faces from a bestiary
  • Nude descending a staircase
  • The autumn in Norfolk Shipyard
  • Warning to sculptors
  • Lewis Carroll
  • In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day
  • Barking dog blues
  • Inscriptions after fact : Lilith ; The sirens ; Narcissus suitor ; Theater of Dionysus
  • At the stoplight by the paupers' graves
  • Little elegy
  • Ladies looking for lice
  • B negative
  • At the ghostwriter's deathbed
  • Rondel
  • One A.M. with voices
  • Cross ties
  • Poets
  • Nothing in heaven functions as it ought
  • Creation morning
  • Traveler's warnings : Main Road west ; Edgar's story ; National shrine ; Peace and plenty ; Driving cross-country
  • Reading trip
  • Requiem in Hoboken
  • For a maiden lady
  • Pottery class
  • Absentminded bartender
  • Loose woman
  • Ant trap
  • West Somerville, Mass. : Day seven ; The ascent ; Golgotha
  • Ode
  • Two apparitions
  • Artificer
  • Daughter in the house
  • The shorter view
  • Giving in to you
  • Song: great chain of being
  • Consumer's report
  • The atheist's stigmata
  • In a secret field
  • Mining town
  • Schizophrenic girl
  • Evening tide
  • A little night music
  • Celebrations after the death of john Brennan
  • Talking dust bowl blues
  • Song to the tune of "Somebody stole my gal"
  • In a dry season
  • A footpath near Gethsemane
  • Dirty English potatoes
  • Goblet
  • Aunt Rectita's Good Friday
  • Hangover mass
  • One-night homecoming
  • October
  • Joshua
  • Old men pitching horseshoes
  • To Dorothy on her exclusion from the Guinness book of world records
  • At the last rites for two hotrodders
  • Flitting flies
  • The death of Professor Backwards
  • At Brown Crane Pavilion
  • On the proposed seizure of twelve graves in a colonial cemetery
  • A Beardsley moment
  • The arm
  • Twelve dead, hundreds homeless
  • The Waterbury cross
  • Veterinarian
  • The animals you eat
  • Snug
  • Overnight pass
  • Two from Guillaume Apollinaire : Pont Mirabeau ; Churchbells
  • To the writers forbidden to write
  • Terse elegy for J.V. Cunningham
  • On being accused of wit
  • Emily Dickinson leaves a message to the world now that her homestead in Amherst has an answering machine
  • The withdrawn gift
  • On the square
  • Dump
  • Summer children
  • Tableau intime
  • Finis
  • Black velvet art
  • "The purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once"
  • Jimmy Harlow
  • Naomi Trimmer
  • Five-and-dime, late thirties
  • Sailors with the clap
  • For Allen Ginsberg
  • Thebes: in the robber village
  • Close call
  • Street moths
  • Décor
  • The ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James
  • A scandal in the suburbs
  • To his lover, that she be not overdressed
  • The blessing of the bikes
  • Sharing the score
  • A curse on a thief
  • Pie
  • Shriveled meditation
  • Meditation in the bedroom of General Francisco Franco
  • Maples in January
  • September Twelfth, 2001
  • Panic in the carwash
  • At Paestum
  • Rites
  • Small house torn down to build a larger
  • Uncertain burial
  • Innocent times
  • Epiphany
  • Furnished rental
  • Brotherhood
  • Death of a window washer
  • Pacifier
  • Geometry
  • Silent cell phones
  • Fireflies
  • Mrs. Filbert's golden quarters
  • Jerry Christmas
  • Poor people in church
  • Sonnet beginning with a line and a half abandoned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • God's obsequies
  • Storehouse
  • At the antiques fair
  • Secret river
  • Command decision
  • Bald eagle
  • Meeting a friend again after thirty years
  • Finding a tintype
  • Out of tune with the stars
  • Envoi.