Calls from the Outside World

by Hershon, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781931236577
• ISBN10: 1931236577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr

Summary

Poetry. "Bob Hershon's unsentimental eye for the touchingly odd, the amusingly odd, and the odd that needs correcting because it represents an important failure on the part of a person or a society is everywhere present in this terrific new book. Hershon is the Master of Brooklyn, Baseball, The Movies, Childhood, Restaurants, European Travel, and a lot besides. These funny, trenchant poems both enrich and ennoble our daily lives" - Charles North.

Table of Contents

Calls from the Outside World	9	(2)
Chicken Suit	11	(1)
Messiah on Varick Street	12	(1)
A Pressure-Sensitive Label	13	(2)
Sylvie	15	(1)
My Passage through Grub Street	16	(2)
Co-Editors	18	(1)
The Deuce by the Coat Rack	19	(1)
Illusions of Paradise	20	(1)
Not a Chain	21	(1)
International Incidents	22	(2)
The Remaining Balance	24	(1)
Mysteries of Country Life Explained	25	(1)
Oh, the Shelburne Hotel, I Thought You Said Swinburne	26	(1)
A Short History of World War II	27	(2)
Ross Bagdasarian	29	(2)
The Marx Brothers Leave Paramount and Sign with MGM	31	(1)
1960, in Memoriam, the Times Theater, Stockton Street, Now a Chinese Supermarket	32	(2)
Two New Kids on the Block and One Old One	34	(2)
Three Photographs Taken Around the House at the Request of Anselm Berrigan and Tom Devaney for a Mysterious Future Project	36	(2)
Neighbors	38	(1)
The Sun Never Sets on Sunset Park	39	(1)
Halloween	40	(1)
Record Snowfall	41	(1)
August 1968	42	(1)
Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road?	43	(1)
History by Holes	44	(1)
Too Good	45	(2)
The Big Occasions	47	(1)
Everybody in New York	48	(1)
Mysteries of Marriage	49	(1)
Olives	50	(1)
Lunch with Lizzie and Dinner with Donna	51	(2)
Another Town	53	(2)
From the Balcony of the Hotel Della Signoria	55	(2)
North from Naples	57	(1)
Cause and Effect	58	(1)
On the Model of Popsicle	59	(1)
A Woman Strangles	60	(1)
They Turn Unto the Patriarch and the Patriarch is Out to Lunch	61	(1)
Celestial Yawning	62	(1)
Rapture of the Deep	63	(1)
Divisible by Five	64	(1)
Beans	65	(1)
Mysteries of Dawn and Dusk	66	(1)
Life as Junior High School	67	(1)
Grover Cleveland High School, Class of `53	68	(6)
The Three Stages of Insomnia	74	(1)
Kandinsky: Paintings 198, 199, 200, 201	75	(2)
Locked	77