Disfortune

by Wenderoth, Joe

• ISBN13: 9780819522221
• ISBN10: 0819522228
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Wenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the world

Table of Contents

Yellow-Jacket Devouring Live Cicada	p. 3
Sleep In Front Of Me	p. 4
Extravagance Of Any Body	p. 5
Morning Fiction	p. 6
False Idols	p. 8
Alone Throwing Stones	p. 9
Letter To Plato	p. 10
Learned From Billie Holiday	p. 11
Aesthetics Of The Bases Loaded Walk	p. 12
Daily News, March Into April 1993	p. 14
Spring Has Again Needlessly	p. 15
Bus-Ride North To Baltimore	p. 16
In The Sentence Of Sleep	p. 17
Things Written During Dwight Yoakams Voice	p. 18
Passage: Away From The Handlessness Of The Light	p. 19
Among Thinkers	p. 20
Phone-Call With My Mother	p. 21
What You Don't Want To Happen Won't Happen	p. 23
Autobiography Of A Born Singer	p. 24
The Senate	p. 25
Detailed History Of The Western World	p. 29
Like Blood From A Deep Cut	p. 30
All The Hurry	p. 31
Zookeeper Lacan	p. 32
"The Most Beautiful World Is Like A Heap Of Rubble, Thrown Down In Confusion"	p. 33
Demerol	p. 35
Calling Through Bushels Of Dead Crabs: Dream	p. 36
The Voices Of Older Girls Standing Together In The Calm Dirty Ocean	p. 37
In Utero	p. 38
Outside The Hospital	p. 39
Poem: An Illocal Custom Which Must Be Half-Forgotten	p. 40
Death	p. 41
Feeding A Talking Bird	p. 42
Is That You Can Hear	p. 43
Love Poem	p. 44
Prayer	p. 45
A Talking Bird Refuses To Title His Poems	p. 46
You	p. 47
The Flat Road Runs Along Beside The Frozen River	p. 48
Early Winter Afternoons	p. 51
Unplumbable	p. 52
Phonograph	p. 53
For An Inspecific Sorrow	p. 54
To My Fathers	p. 55
Disease Samadhi	p. 56
Disfortune	p. 57
Pain-Song	p. 58
Lose Hold Of The Blessing	p. 59
Thanksgiving	p. 60
Leaving A Moving Picture Matinee	p. 61
Wallace Stevens Describing The Need For And Then The Consequences Of Elvis Presley	p. 62
Wallace Stevens Lecturing At The Community College	p. 63
"Flowers Are A Tiresome Pastime"	p. 64
Someone Who Purely Looks The Part	p. 66
After	p. 67
Probably A Strong Undertow	p. 68
Notes and Acknowledgments	p. 69
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