City of Regret

by Kozma, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780978612719
• ISBN10: 097861271X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. "In Andrew Kozma's poems, the world is intriguingly askew: 'The desert sky opens like the mouth of a dying fish.' Cafes undress, walls merge with air, and rooms speak, sometimes even returning one's gaze, projecting strange images that will shadow you like portraits whose eyes follow you around the room and even into the street. Kozma is at his best evoking those odd moments of disorientation when the stuff of your life transforms, seeming to submerge into a matrix of dream--'those moments air becomes solid and you stare through ice / like a man in a glacier....'"--J. Allyn Rosser.

Table of Contents

Walls Merging with Air
Dis	p. 1
Entrances	p. 3
The Cleansing Power of Metaphor	p. 5
Night Meeting	p. 6
The Transplant Ward	p. 7
That We May Find Ourselves at Death	p. 8
Through Ice	p. 9
The Vision of St. Jerome	p. 10
The Rapture	p. 11
On the Way to My Father's Death	p. 12
Your Sketch of the Church in Mourning	p. 13
Walls	p. 15
Dedicatory Letter	p. 17
The Influence of Anxiety	p. 18
Disappearances	p. 19
From the Honeymoon Album	p. 20
Acropolis	p. 23
Blood Perimeter	p. 24
Strange Children	p. 25
Brotherhood	p. 26
Invader	p. 27
Living Spaces	p. 29
Quarantine	p. 31
The Alchemist's Genealogy	p. 32
Mary Fights the Memories of Her Tongue	p. 33
Her Lover, Gone to Buy a Drink, Perhaps	p. 34
The Demonstration	p. 35
Sodom	p. 36
The Funeral	p. 37
The Butcher	p. 38
Meanings	p. 39
Sword of Damascus	p. 40
Last Show at the Slip Knot	p. 41
Agoraphobia	p. 42
The Naked Table	p. 43
"Confess," you'd said, asleep	p. 44
Elegy for the End of the Day	p. 45
Alleys	p. 47
Not a Love Letter	p. 49
The Nuns Remove Their Noses and Lips	p. 52
Limits to Science and Medicine	p. 53
Poet Will Eat Himself	p. 54
The Skin Is Full of Sound	p. 55
Tending the Field	p. 56
Another Poem on Red	p. 57
Goodbye to Greece, Goodbye to Cyprus	p. 58
Reclamation	p. 59
Promises	p. 60
Dream of Small Things	p. 61
One of the Unburied Dead	p. 62
Exits	p. 63
His Body Makes Its Way Home	p. 65
My Mother and My Brother Wake My Father	p. 66
The Cremation	p. 67
After the Cremation	p. 68
The Cure at Krakow	p. 69
What Is	p. 70
Christmas Day, St. Peter's Square	p. 71
Too Steep to Climb	p. 72
Walking from the Funeral	p. 73
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