Alcatraz

by Cecil, Richard

• ISBN13: 9781557530158
• ISBN10: 1557530157
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-05-01
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

"These poems are powerful, moving an original. There is clarity, honesty and delightful quirkiness. He captures-he recaptures-the human situation. He is just as shocking, radical and aggravating, in his way, as language poets, for instance, are in theirs. He makes it almost possible-let me say possible-for a well-educated generalist to read poetry again. A lovely volume."

Table of Contents

Bay Cruise	p. 3
The Merry Christmas	p. 6
Author Plans His Month in England	p. 8
Miracles	p. 11
The Siren	p. 14
Winter Physical	p. 15
Free Pick Up and Delivery	p. 17
San Francisco Modern Language Convention	p. 19
Little World	p. 22
Abstract from The Journal of the Plague Year	p. 27
My Inferno	p. 29
New Dialogues of the Dead	p. 31
Reply to the Goslar Letter	p. 37
The Call	p. 39
Richard's Blues	p. 42
Analyze Hamlet's Tragic Flaw	p. 45
Homage to Benvenuto Cellini	p. 47
Night Raker	p. 49
Soliloquy in a Petting Zoo	p. 51
Fifteen Years Ago	p. 55
Breakfast at Forty-two	p. 57
Railroad Death	p. 58
Metro Tire	p. 60
Les Belles Dames Sans Merci	p. 62
Junk Calls	p. 64
The 500-Lire Piece	p. 66
American Movie Classics	p. 69
Ballad of Dead Actresses	p. 71
Writing with Olive	p. 74
Memorial	p. 77
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