One Hand on the Wheel

by BELLM DAN

• ISBN13: 9780966669107
• ISBN10: 096666910X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

In a series of linked poems, a gay son at his father's deathbed ("no accident/it's me, Dad, your mortal enemy and friend ...") uncovers his family's past and his own passage from childhood to raising a son. Cool and alert, the poems stretch across roadways from Illinois to California and from the 1840s to the present, navigating the silences and reticent disclosures of generations of boys and men.

Table of Contents

Hands	p. 3
Heaven	p. 5
Lament	p. 7
Homage	p. 8
Discipline	p. 13
Looking-glass	p. 15
Charmed life	p. 17
Gate of heaven	p. 19
Consolation	p. 23
Stones	p. 25
Open house	p. 27
Damage	p. 29
I think we're alone now	p. 33
Book of maps	p. 36
Midrash of the abandoned child	p. 40
Boy wearing a dress	p. 42
Nashvillanelle	p. 47
Fighting with the dead	p. 48
Faint music	p. 50
While grieving	p. 51
Before words	p. 57
Second son	p. 58
Illinois River	p. 60
Brightness	p. 63
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