| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
American poets continuum series ; no. 143 |
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American poets continuum series ; no. 143.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Discography; New Poems; Dear L, The Choruses We Lost Along the Coast; The Blues Is a Verb; Dear L, Our Diminishing; Dear L, Am I Another Exchanged for Yes; Poem to Be Put in a Drawer After Telling; Song for My Father; Poem Written on a Chain-Link Fence; Against Economics; What Singing Left We Wrote Was What Was Sung; Dear L, I Don't Know How Across the Grass Our Daughter Runs Balancing Life (a ball a blade a) ; Most of My Life Is Gnawing the Most Remarkable Lies; Our Limping; Meth Music; At the Toss of a Coin a Dream like a Jaguar Walked intoJorge's Cue; Double It; Jorge's Uncle. |
| Contents |
Dear You Who Never ReturnedDrawn in Blue Light and Broken Glass; Deserted Parking Lots with Faded Lines; We Once Were Stolen Skateboards; What Is Lost Is Never Said; Waiting to Be Shot in the Back; Decatur Chevy; Dear L, I Cannot Spell; Dear L, I Am Your Scar; Insomnia of the Broken Clock; The Door Shuts the Rain; Everyday Our Tattered Wings; Dear L, The Moon Is White and Blue as Ripped-up Lottery Tickets; The Mercy of Sleep, 1994; Tears for Saint Catherine; Like the Wings of White Moths on Moonless Nights; Wounds of Blood and Light; Love Song of the Young Couple, The Dumb Job, 1995. |
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At Mike's Pub and GrubTiny Griefs; Danger Flammable; The Sweeper; I'm Looking for Lorca in Your Letters; The Body's Precarious Balance, 1997; Beyond the Chain-Link Fence; Poem for Anthony Otherwise Known as Head; Days of 1984; Long Coats with Deep Pockets; Insert Your Name Here; An Iron Spiral; Cocoons; Moon-Grief Utterance; The Coat; Clay; Except by Falling, 2000; Excerpt from Spoken Blind to a Break Beat While Drinking; Untitled at Hong Fats; Told to the Time of a Falling Leaf; Alphabet That Ends in Bubbalicious; The Somnambulist Waltz; There Is Nothing to Offer My Breath; Lamentation. |
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The Body Is the WaterBodega de Booty Canzone; Nine Innings to Go; The Biography of Broken Things, 2002; In the Biography of Broken Things; Prisons; Them; Halls; At a Certain Hour. On a Certain Day.; Spread Your Wings; In the Rain; Nightshift Belonging to Lorca, 2004; Invocation; Erotic Poem; Swoon; Oranges; Fuck Me like Being Born; Sean Thomas Dougherty; Against Green; Snowglobe; Testimony; In the Gloaming; Broken Hallelujahs, 2007; Dear Pistachio; The Sky Inside; All You Ask for Is Longing; My Father's Fro in the Mode of Romare Bearden; Oberek for Etheridge Knight; The Day Biggie Smalls Died. |
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Embraceable YouKowalski: A Historiography; What We Keep; Hinges; After the Election; Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line, 2010; Arias; The Opposite of Elegy; Dear Tiara; Our Love as an Origami Crane; Raphael; Shell; Untitled on Someone Else's Anniversary; Duet; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Colophon. |
| Summary |
A true iconoclastic poet born, living and surviving in the underground, this is the best of Dougherty's ten collections. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dougherty, Sean Thomas. All You Ask For is Longing. New York : BOA Editions Ltd., 2014 9781938160318 |
| ISBN |
9781938160318 (electronic bk.) |
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1938160312 (electronic bk.) |
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