Blue Jesus

by Daniels, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780887483325
• ISBN10: 0887483321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

M-80:

There is a melancholy sweetness running through these poems that, while not entirely redemptive, offers unexpected relief and enables us to see that Jim Daniels, despite the tough-bitten talk, is a poet born to praise.

Table of Contents

1.
Yellow Jesus	9	(1)
Red Jesus	10	(1)
Green Jesus	11	(1)
Blue Jesus	12	(1)
Purple Jesus	13	(2)
Silver Jesus	15	(1)
Orange Jesus	16	(2)
Brown Jesus	18	(1)
White Jesus	19	(4)
2.
Praying Man Turns Himself in for Crimes Uncommitted	23	(1)
Angels, Shmangels	24	(1)
Angels Bowling on All Saints Day	25	(2)
Crafts	27	(2)
Children of the Damned	29	(6)
Shedding the Vestments	35	(2)
Night Janitor	37	(3)
The Fall	40	(1)
St. Agnes and the Hypermarche	41	(2)
Hymns	43	(2)
Spider Boy Killed After Massive Manhunt	45	(4)
3.
Bone and Hook	49	(2)
The Boogie Down Dancers	51	(1)
Ribs	52	(1)
Pope Pulling a String	53	(1)
Surgery for the Underclass	54	(1)
Taking It from Behind	55	(2)
Hat and Coat	57	(1)
Naked Man with Newspaper	58	(1)
Bleeding	59	(1)
Enormous Foot	60	(1)
Meditation on a Nude Woman with Spots	61	(1)
The Black Hole of the Human Body	62	(1)
Triptych: Three Figures as the Base of a Crucifixion	63	(3)
Haircut on the 21st Floor	66	(2)
Water from a Tap	68	(1)
Snaked Man	69	(1)
Adam's Ribs	70	(1)
Man with Bloody Pig	71	(1)
Speakin of Philosophy: Three Studies from the Human Body	72	(2)
Evolution: Two Figures with Monkey	74	(2)
Self-Portrait with Watch	76	(2)
Screaming or Yawning	78	(2)
Jet of Water	80