Making Love to Roget's Wife : Poems New and Selected /

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In Making Love to Roget's Wife, Ron Koertge offers his best work from twenty-three years and a dozen earlier collections. With twenty-five new poems, and over eighty from previous books, this selection reawakens us to the presence of a superbly honed comic voice.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Koertge, Ronald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The art of poetry
  • What she wanted
  • Loving ugly
  • Ozzie Nelson dead of cancer
  • Admission requirements of U.S. and Canadian dental schools
  • Soothing the unheralded organs
  • Panty hose
  • Plastic man, alone in the luncheonette, reaches the length of the counter for the salt
  • Beautiful eyes for a boy
  • The manager of the drive-in dairy
  • Secrets of writing revealed at last
  • Things that make you so scared you can't swallow so you start to cry and you tell them that you'll do anything if they'll just leave you alone
  • A dazed survivor recounts the events leading up to the tragedy
  • Christmas card
  • Moving day
  • To impress the girl next door
  • Guys at the races
  • Future Farmers of America
  • What a varied place the world is so trusting and strange so deserving of love and praise
  • Victims
  • Orphan
  • Field report from Sodom
  • Lazarus
  • Mr. Big
  • Killing time
  • I never touch my penis
  • On the anniversary of his death the men of the village meet to talk about Frankenstein
  • "The thing is not to let go of the vine"
  • Dairy cows
  • Touring the creches
  • A word of prayer in the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant
  • The undead
  • Days off
  • With a million things to do, the doctor muses, anyway
  • Written almost in the dark
  • On the way home from ICU
  • For my daughter
  • Dirty post cards
  • "These students couldn't write their way out of a paper bag"
  • Ganesha
  • Playing doctor
  • 5:00
  • On the origin of animal demographics and communication
  • If you lived here you'd be home now
  • Caesar's Gallic wars
  • Searchlights
  • Horse & cows
  • Sidekicks
  • Inventions of troglodytes
  • Boy's life
  • The mummy
  • Men & women
  • Have you heard the one about the soul?
  • Excerpts from "God's secret diary"
  • She
  • Not only naked Indian girls and booze but 10-point bucks that line up just begging to be shot and bass in shoals so thick a man could walk across the water on their backs
  • Night
  • Pornography
  • Green
  • Coming out
  • The strain of it all drives Bambi mad
  • Missing persons
  • The history of poetry
  • Darkness fell
  • Nurses at the beach-- Christmas Eve
  • Sex object
  • At Gerlach's
  • Nags
  • Coloring
  • The war
  • All thumbs
  • Summer job
  • Easter
  • The last siesta
  • Baby, its you
  • Sweaters
  • Now and them
  • "Fundamentalist group rejects nudist campsite"
  • Grace
  • Trails' end curious
  • My name
  • Out of body experiences
  • Thirteenth birthday party
  • The other side
  • Ruidoso, N.M.
  • A little kid
  • The man in the moon
  • Road kill
  • In search of
  • Making love to Roget's wife
  • The lost continent
  • I take my toes
  • The kids-only motel
  • Lava soap
  • An infinite number of monkeys
  • Hula
  • Flirting with poetry
  • First grade
  • "On the tip of my tongue"
  • Boy
  • Books
  • The abstraction ladder
  • A night school teacher looks at his final class
  • Hermits
  • A guide to refreshing sleep.

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