| Description |
x, 100 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction
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| Contents |
1. Apple-doors -- The door prohibited -- Permissions -- Mystery baseball -- The orgy -- Emptying your pockets -- From the clearing -- Rural fantasia -- 2. Spanish artifacts -- Watching a movie in a foreign language without subtitles (Cordoba) -- January 1, 1974 (Altea) -- Waking slowly after a siesta (Altea) -- The bar-girl (Alicante) -- Prisms (Altea) -- Getting caught in a rainstorm (Altea) -- 3. Nipples rise to spirit -- The boy under the bed -- Sleeping parents, wakeful children -- Three for the father -- 1. The coal furnace -- 2. His father takes up gardening late in life -- 3. First snow -- The mermaid crashed upon the mind -- In her ear -- Caroline naked : a husband to his wife -- The kitchen : three poems -- 1. On getting a circular table -- 2. This place -- 3. Hortatory -- The living room -- Adultery : a triptych -- 1. The adulterers' letters -- He writes an old girlfriend and asks her to have an affair with him -- 3. Letters : a family man explains his adultery -- Study -- Three anniversaries -- 1. "Five years" -- 2. The progress of love -- 3. "Twelve years" -- Bedtime song -- The drinking -- A wife -- One of the boys -- February 14, 1980 -- Frost warnings -- The last straw -- Quicksong -- Where we were -- 4. The presence of presence -- Levitation -- The blizzard -- Praiseful mouths -- The runner -- One of the shadows -- Proofreading -- The sleep -- The way it happens -- Putting your body to sleep. |
| ISBN |
0801826020 (pbk.) |
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9780801826023 (pbk.) |
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0801826012 |
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9780801826016 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 803410344 |
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NZ1 2906852 |
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AU@ 000001848598 |
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UNITY 01958167X |
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