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Put This On, Please : New & Selected Poems /

Contains work from all five of his full collections, as well as a group of new poems. In lines that capture the rhythms of everyday speech (with the ghost of meter haunting closely along), Trowbridge follows misfits and outcasts whose ramblings and shamblings reflect our own well-meaning gropes for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Trowbridge, William, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2014]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Enter Dark Stranger 1989
  • Stark Weather 19
  • Plain Geometry 20
  • Enter Dark Stranger 21
  • Self-Help 22
  • Knack of Jumping 24
  • Memoirs of the Frog Prince 26
  • Home Front 28
  • Sunday School Lesson from Capt. Daniel Mayhew, USAAF, Ret. 30
  • Cherry Bombs 31
  • Drumming Behind You in the High School Band 32
  • Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten 33
  • Children's Night at the Gentry County Fair 34
  • Father-and-Son Project 22: Model Airplane Building 35
  • My Father Cannot Draw a Man 36
  • Bearing Gifts 38
  • from O Paradise 1995
  • Queer Street 43
  • Scot-Free 44
  • Kiss 45
  • Cinema Des Beaux Arts 46
  • Great Big Crybabies 47
  • American Gothic 48
  • Why Astaire 50
  • "Strange Meadowlark" 51
  • Gag 52
  • What We Could Do 54
  • In My Father's Buick 55
  • Saint's Life 56
  • Foxfire 58
  • Encounter at an Out-of-Town Bar 61
  • Living with Solar Keratosis 62
  • from Flickers 2000
  • Uncle Miltie 65
  • Art of Vanishing 66
  • Walking Out 68
  • Losing It 69
  • Fall Guys 70
  • Gotta Dance 72
  • Flickers 73
  • American Primitive 74
  • Monster 76
  • Playing Dead 77
  • Honey Wagon: An Historical Poem 78
  • Poets' Corner 80
  • Kiss of Death 82
  • Cadillac 84
  • Curtain Call 86
  • from the Four Seasons Chapbook 2001
  • That Time of Year 89
  • Summer's Almost Gone 90
  • from The Complete Book of Kong 2003
  • Kong Bares His Soul Regarding Miss Tyrannasaura Regina 93
  • Kong Looks Back on His Tryout with The Bears 94
  • Having Thought Better of a Shootout, Kong Consents to Mambo Lessons 95
  • Kong Turns Critic 96
  • Kong Picks Door Number Two 97
  • Kong Answers the Call for a Few Good Men 98
  • Kong Tries for a Mature Audience 99
  • Viet Kong 100
  • Kong Incognito 101
  • Kong Views an Experimental Art Film at the City Library 102
  • Kong Hits the Road with Dan-Dec Carnivals, Inc. 103
  • Kong Discusses King Kong IV
  • Over a Power Lunch 104
  • Kong Meets Godzilla 105
  • Madness of Kong 106
  • September Kong 107
  • from The Packing House Cantata Chapbook 2006
  • Smell 111
  • Knife 112
  • Sticker 113
  • Blood 114
  • Bad 115
  • from Ship of Fool 2011
  • Playing the Fool 119
  • Fools Paradise 120
  • Basic Fool 122
  • Wise Fool 123
  • Fool and His Money 124
  • Fool Electric 126
  • World s Biggest Fool 128
  • Ship of Fool 131
  • Coach Said 132
  • Wow 133
  • Obedience 136
  • My Father's Laugh 137
  • Pity the Fool 138
  • Fool Noir 139
  • Ninety-Seven-Pound Fool 140
  • Juggler 141
  • Roll Out the Fool 142
  • New Poems
  • Meyers s Newsstand, 1954 147
  • Walking the Dogs 148
  • Put This On, Please 149
  • Niagara Falls 150
  • When Ya Gotta Go 151
  • Selling 152
  • We Real Old 153
  • Newboy 154
  • Wrestlers 156
  • Wolf 157
  • Mr. Fix-It 158
  • Who's on First? 159
  • Last Meal 160
  • At Forest Hill 161
  • Don't Look Now 162
  • Movietone 163
  • Bugs, 1956 164
  • Dead End 166
  • Born to Lose 168
  • Liston 169
  • Screaming B-Movie Victims 170
  • Road 172
  • Before Ramada 174
  • "Operation Smooch" 176
  • Chicken 177
  • Old Guys on Motorcycles 178
  • Bogie Noir 179
  • "This Is Your Life, Oliver Hardy!" 180
  • In Memoriam: George Sanders 181
  • Blue Angel 182
  • Absolution 183
  • Bacall 184
  • Clouscau 185
  • Down the Halls and into the Street 186
  • Proof of Intelligent Life 187
  • In Memoriam: Omaha Tech 188
  • And Now, As Promised 190
  • Jacob Marley to the Reader 192
  • My Poetry 101 193
  • 50th Reunion: Westside High 195
  • Photography 197.