Candy Necklace

by Bedient, Calvin; Bedient, Cal

• ISBN13: 9780819522344
• ISBN10: 0819522341
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

The brutality of both public and private experience finds reckoning in these intricate and majestic new poems.

Table of Contents

1.	3	(18)
The Night Is Cold. The Earth Is the Weakest of the Flames	3	(3)
Ten Thousand Ears Stood Out from Shaved Heads and Listened	6	(2)
Back a Van Gogh Yellow	8	(2)
Speech Is Kinder than the Night	10	(2)
The Ache of Not Yet Being	12	(3)
The Gull's Cry My Watermark	15	(2)
Muse of the Tender Night	17	(4)
2.	21	(24)
Spring Rights	21	(2)
No Whip, No Velvet	23	(2)
The Wild Troops of Proportion	25	(2)
The Shepherd Leading His Flock to the Rainbow	27	(2)
Unclean Poem	29	(3)
The Ave of Our Path	32	(2)
Woman with the Stuff	34	(2)
Great World Intentional	36	(2)
In the Fox's Red Face There Is Hard Beauty	38	(2)
Venus Squirming in the Pool of Art	40	(1)
blue fire	41	(4)
3.	45	(14)
Baskets and Ashes	45	(1)
My Ear's Red Morning in the Snow	46	(2)
First Stain, Second Stain	48	(1)
Hands Tied Behind Each Back by the Maniac Desire	49	(2)
Possum	51	(1)
Love-In Mit Wittgenstein	52	(2)
Candy Necklace	54	(5)
4.	59	(18)
White Snow Falling Without Wind	59	(2)
On Leaving My Son's Wedding Before the Cutting of the Cake	61	(2)
How Do You Do I Adore You	63	(2)
In the Place Where the Dream Stumbles Over Its Reality	65	(2)
The Dead Put Up a Bad Fight	67	(5)
When Zeus Rid Heaven of Necessity	72	(2)
New Music in Every Face	74	(3)
5.	77	(14)
The Child Is the Keeper of the Garden	77	(1)
Very Oyster, Very Few	78	(4)
Can That Be She	82	(2)
Bush Vet Keeping	84	(2)
Grief	86	(1)
Any Son of a Bitch	87	(2)
The Gods Do Not Fear Because They Are Not Any Place Among	89	(2)
Acknowledgments	91