The Dig and Hotel Fiesta

by Emanuel, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780252064203
• ISBN10: 0252064208
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Politics of Narrative---Why I Am a Poet	xiii
The Dig
The Beginning
Stone Soup	5	(1)
The Planet Krypton	6	(2)
Chinoisserie	8	(1)
Blonde Bombshell	9	(1)
One Summer Hurricane Lynn Spawns Tornadoes as Far West as Ely	10	(1)
The Night Man at the Blue Lite	11	(1)
Outside Room Six	12	(1)
Dreaming of Rio at Sixteen	13	(1)
For Me at Sunday Sermons, the Serpent	14	(5)
Beginning Again
This Is the Truth	19	(1)
Domestic Violence	20	(1)
What the Keyhole Was	21	(1)
Seizure	22	(1)
Whites	23	(1)
Drawing Rosie's Train Trip	24	(1)
The Idol	25	(2)
What Grieving Was	27	(1)
What Ely Was	28	(1)
A Red Kimono	29	(4)
Past and Present
The Past	33	(2)
Bella Roma	35	(1)
Riddle	36	(1)
Who Is She Kidding	37	(2)
Self-Portrait at Eighteen	39	(1)
We, the Poets of America	40	(2)
Inspiration	42	(1)
Heartsick	43	(2)
On Waking after Dreaming of Raoul	45	(2)
The Technology of Love	47	(2)
Rebirth	49	(1)
A Poem Like an Automobile Can Take You Anywhere	50	(5)
The Hereafter and After That
Far	55	(2)
Inspiration, Two	57	(2)
Spite---Homage to Sylvia Plath	59	(1)
Big Black Car	60	(1)
The Out-of-Body Experience	61	(2)
What Dying Was Like	63	(1)
What Did You Expect?	64	(1)
The Poet in Heaven	65	(1)
What Heaven Is	66	(2)
Homage to Dickinson	68	(1)
The Dig	69	(1)
Coda (in the Form of Notes)	70	(9)
Hotel Fiesta
Black Sedans, Long Limousines
Frying Trout while Drunk	79	(1)
The Sleeping	80	(1)
Of Your Father's Indiscretions and the Train to California	81	(1)
The Dig	82	(1)
I Dream I Love You under the Pine, under the Poplar	83	(2)
Berlin Interior with Jews, 1939	85	(1)
When Father Decided He Did Not Love Her Anymore	86	(2)
Grandmother Zoltana, Tunisia, Early '50s---Two Photographs---Before Her Death and at the Funeral	88	(1)
Ordinary Objects	89	(2)
Dream about the Old Mosaic Found in a Syrian Orchard	91	(1)
The Photograph of My Father at an Early Exhibit of Arshile Gorky	92	(1)
The Photograph of Ramona Posing while Father Sketches Her in Charcoal	93	(1)
Apology	94	(1)
Self-Portrait	95	(1)
The Artists	96	(1)
Patient	97	(1)
Of My Father before the War	98	(5)
Miss Christina, Miss Lorraine
After Your Letter of Elegant Good-bye	103	(1)
You Tell Me	104	(1)
Desire	105	(1)
Tourists	106	(2)
She Is Six	108	(1)
Discovering the Photograph of Lloyd, Earl, and Priscilla	109	(1)
Inventing Father in Las Vegas	110	(1)
Elegy Written in the Vowels of Her Name	111	(1)
Enormous Leisure	112	(1)
At the Magritte Exhibition	113	(1)
Looking for the Old Rosebud Cemetery	114	(1)
What I Know about the End of the Second World War	115	(1)
On Returning to Carthage to Excavate an Ancient Sacrifical Site	116	(2)
Kiss	118	(1)
The Poet in the Garret in America	119