| Description |
xviii, 299 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Santiago: Five Men in the Street: Number One -- Santiago: Five Men in the Street: Number Two -- Santiago: In Praise of Community -- Fatal Kisses -- Favorite Iraqi Soldier -- Tenderly -- Roughhousing -- Topless -- Syracuse Nights -- Uprising -- The Community -- Somewhere It Still Moves -- Red Geraniums -- Pastel Dresses -- Hidden Within the Sleeves of Those Dark Robes -- Santiago: Forestal Park -- Santiago: La Avenida Pedro de Valdivia -- Santiago: Market Day in Winter -- Passing the Word -- Leaving the Bar and Low Life at Closing, I Unsuccessfully Pursue Sainthood -- In the Hospital -- Contingencies -- Connections -- Counterparts -- After the War with the Eskimos -- Ten Feet of Rope -- The Velocity of Cows -- The Conviviality of Cows -- The Way It Goes or the Proper Use of Leisure Time -- Explaining the Nature of Evidence -- The Place Between Us -- Refusing the Necessary -- Name-burning -- The Ways of Keys -- Six Poems on Moving -- The Giver of Gifts -- Putting It All Away -- The Men with Long Faces -- Clouds -- The Grandfather Poem -- Crossroads -- Seeing Off a Friend -- Sloth -- Gluttony -- Anger -- Envy -- Covetousness -- Vanity -- Spite -- Bravado -- Absence -- Grief -- Silence -- Rain Song -- Oatmeal Deluxe -- Song of the Drowned Boy -- The Body of Romulus -- Fear -- A Separate Time -- Morning Song -- Song for Making the Birds Come -- Letter Beginning with the First Line of Your Letter -- Footstep -- Fragments -- Geese -- Song of Four Dancers -- Separations -- It's Like This -- A Place in Maine -- from The Invisibles -- Pablo Neruda -- Song of the Wrong Response -- The Delicate, Plummeting Bodies -- The Greedy Child -- The Card Game -- The Living Room -- Getting Up -- The Guitar Lesson -- The Room -- The Mountain -- The Triangular Field -- The White Skirt -- Gotteron Landscape -- Katia Reading -- The Window -- Japanese Girl with Red Table -- The Street -- The Gun -- Birth Report -- General Matthei Drives Home Through Santiago -- Dancing in Vacationland -- Under the Green Ceiling -- Wind Chimes -- Bleeder -- Funny -- Spring Rain -- This Life -- Where We Are -- Black Dog, Red Dog -- Frenchie -- The Great Doubters of History -- Kentucky Derby Day, Belfast, Maine -- Night Swimmer -- Dead Baby -- Cuidadores de Autos -- What You Have Come to Expect -- Beauty -- Cemetery Nights -- The Gardener -- Tomatoes -- How to Like It -- Marsyas, Midas and the Barber -- Waking -- Faces -- The General and the Tango Singer -- Cemetery Nights II -- Spiritual Chickens -- Bowlers Anonymous -- White Pig -- Theseus Within the Labyrinth -- White Thighs -- To Pull Into Oneself as Into a Locked Room -- The Nihilist -- Cemetery Nights IV -- Short Rides -- Mermaid -- The Noise the Hairless Make -- Orpheus -- The Party -- Streetlight -- Querencia -- Cemetery Nights V -- The Body's Journey -- The Belly -- Desire -- Careers -- Rootless -- Eyelids -- The Body's Curse -- Cezanne and Zola -- Cezanne's Outrageousness -- Long Story -- Freight Cars -- No Map -- How Could You Ever Be Fine -- Noses -- Spleen -- The Body's Hope -- Cezanne's Ambition -- Cezanne's Doubts -- Confession -- In a Row -- Shaving -- The Music One Looks Back On -- Inappropriate Gestures -- Sweat -- The Body's Strength -- Cezanne's Love of Poetry -- Cezanne and the Love of Color -- Receivers of the World's Attention -- How It Was at the End -- Walls to Put Up, Walls to Take Down -- Toting It Up -- The Day the World Ends -- Slipping Away -- The Body's Weight. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dobyns, Stephen, 1941- Velocities. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1994 (OCoLC)623516269 |
| ISBN |
0140586512 (paperback) |
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9780140586510 (paperback) |
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0670830895 (hardcover) |
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9780670830893 (hardcover) |
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