"Dedicated to the proposition that the topical poem is not inferior to the personal lyric and that poems about today's struggles are not necessarily lacking in "eternal" themes."--Forward [sic].
Contents
For Robert Creeley -- For Pat Janus -- A walk in the woods -- A long road to freedom -- Spring comes to Baghdad -- Cultus -- Pieta -- Worry -- Lucky -- From the 20th century (with love) -- My uncle is a cyborg -- From Duffy's Tavern, Avon, NY -- Rose petal jelly -- Virtual Wendell Barry -- Adrift -- More light! -- Proposal -- The helmsman -- Litany -- Digital Bop -- Babes in the woods -- War of the rodents -- The great pyramid -- Tainted tabouli -- 31 Oct. -- Demon luxurious -- Pulse lyre -- Venusian hermeneutics -- Fundamentals -- Muffinland -- Red flag over Avon -- Sing out -- "After the storm" sequence -- Children of the rock -- The pope of neverland -- The king and the president -- Here's for all -- The fat man who -- Begin the beguine -- Poetry camp -- After the poetry conference -- BGR -- For Tom Fox -- March 17, 2003 -- Cyclops 2 -- July 4 ode -- Coalition of the willing -- Flat daddy -- Rick's Café Américain in the Green Zone -- Baghdad boogaloo -- Elegy for the Bill of Rights -- October revelation -- A day without immigrants -- Salud -- "Gleneagles" sequence.
