| Description |
xv, 207 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Karen & Michael Braziller Book." |
| Summary |
"New poems by Patrick Rosal, along with generous selections from his first four collections"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
New Poems / Pqemas Nuevos / Baro A Dandaniw / Bagong Tula -- Boys' Bodies in Flight (are also a kind of text) -- A Town Called Sadness -- The Changing Hymn (Allegory of the Singing Lover) -- Making Out on a Hill Overlooking the Hudson -- The Hanged Ghost -- A Memory on the Eve of the Return of the U.S. Military to Subic Bay -- Learning to Slaughter -- If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is -- When Prince Was Filipino -- On the Elevation of Earthlings -- a Hymn -- Atang: Building My First Altar -- Check, Incantation Composed on the Occasion of Being Classified As Inadmissible -- Gift -- Where the Ocean Ends -- La Epoca en que Hay Olvido -- Sleeping Animal -- The Last Thing or Song for When They Take It All Away -- SELECTED POEMS -- From Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003) -- B-Boy Infinitives -- Freddie -- Nine Thousand Outlines -- You Clubhouse Boys -- The Next Hundred-Odd Half-Dreamed Miles -- Citrus City -- Who Says the Eye Loves Symmetry -- "My Mother Is in Los Angeles" -- Uncommon Denominators -- Poem -- Pick-up Line Ending with a Prayer -- From My American Kundiman (2006) -- Meditations on the Eve of My Niece's Birth -- On Our Long Road Trip Home I Don't Ask My Friend if He Thinks His Youngest Daughter Might Be Someone Else's Kid -- Beast -- Lapu Lapu's Envoy Conveys His Response to Magellan -- When You Haven't Made Love in a Long Time -- The Woman You Love Cuts Apples For You -- Kundiman In Medias Res -- Kundiman on a Dance Floor Called Guernica -- Kundiman Ending on a Theme from T La Rock -- Kundiman for My Lover Beside Me on the Floor (Her Daughter Asleep on My Bed) -- Poem for My Extra Nipple -- About the White Boys Who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me -- As Glass -- St. Patrick -- Two Black People and a Filipino Near the Concessions Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival -- Photo of My Grandmother Running Toward Us on a Beach in Ilokos -- From Boneshepherds (2011) -- Boneshepherds' Lament -- Delenda Undone -- Little Men with Fast Hands -- Bienvenida: Santo Tomas -- Tamarind -- Crew Love Elegy -- Sundiata Elegy -- Ars Poetica: After a Dog -- Naima -- Aubade: The Monday Bargain -- Making Love to You the Night They Take Your Father to Prison -- Guitar -- Despedida Ardiente -- The Tradition of Pianos -- From Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016) -- Despedida: Brooklyn to Philly -- Typhoon Poem -- At the Tribunals -- A Scavenger's Ode to the Turntable (aka a Note to Thomas Alva Edison) -- Brokeheart: Just Like That -- Ode to the Cee-Lo Players -- The Halo-Halo Men: An Anthem -- Violets -- Wish -- Kundiman: Hung Justice -- Instance of an Island -- Ten Years After My Mom Dies I Dance -- Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard -- Ode to Eating a Pomegranate in Brooklyn -- You Cannot Go to the God You Love with Your Two Legs -- Brooklyn Antediluvian. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780892555321 (hardcover) |
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0892555327 (hardcover) |
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