| Description |
x, 95 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin poets
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| Contents |
The Exigencies of Art -- An Artist Like Any Other -- Unexpected Holiday -- Yellow Beak -- Do They Have a Reason? -- Living in a Nice Place -- Other -- The Happily Ever After -- Toward Some Bright Moment -- Dead Rope -- Penny for Your Thoughts -- Alligator Dark -- Learning to Cope -- Payback -- The Balance -- Family Values -- Hide and Seek -- Survivor -- Reparations -- Between -- Face-to-Face -- At Home With Angels -- The Personal Lyric Vs. The Public Good -- Commotion -- Scofflaw -- Hack Work -- Dance, Dance -- Shards of Broken Glass Rejoined -- Saying No -- No Moment Past This One -- Odds and Ends -- The Birth of Angels -- Jonah's Flight to Tarshish -- Functional Forgetting -- The Appreciation of Beauty -- Endnotes from the Ancient World -- The Pig's Complaint to His Queen -- Chuckleheads -- Heaven's Proletariat -- Angel With Book -- The Requisite Grin -- Old Farts' Ball -- The Mercy of Lazarus -- Driving Past Toward the Bridge -- The Sideboard's Mahogany Surface -- The Sacrifice -- Too Much Skepticism is Like a Punch to the Head -- For Those Whose Mouths are Packed with Suckling Pig -- Punishments -- The Last Take-Out Supper -- A Morning Pre-Beef -- Cold Nights -- Country Club -- Poem Ending with a Line by Su Tung-Po -- What had Seemed Permanent -- Thomas the Doubter's Irrefutable Chink -- What He Had Been Promised -- Aidoneus-Hades-Unseen One -- The Cat with Its Toys -- Pluto -- Small -- Three Christs of Ypsilanti -- Mystery, So Long -- Field Notes on Divine Evolution -- The Cunning One -- Artist. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Humor.
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Poetry -- Life.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dobyns, Stephen, 1941- Mystery, so long. New York : Penguin Books, 2005 (OCoLC)607576826 |
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Online version: Dobyns, Stephen, 1941- Mystery, so long. New York : Penguin Books, 2005 (OCoLC)607662816 |
| ISBN |
0143034626 |
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9780143034629 |
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