Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest Poems

by Fairchild, B. H.

• ISBN13: 9780393050967
• ISBN10: 0393050963
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Author Biography

B. H. Fairchild is the author of The Arrival of the Future, Local Knowledge, and The Art of the Lathe, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and the William Carlos Williams Award. He lives in California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
PART ONE
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest	7	(1)
Moses Yellowhorse Is Throwing Water Balloons from the Hotel Roosevelt	8	(3)
Mrs. Hill	11	(2)
The Potato Eaters	13	(2)
Holy Rollers, Snyder, Texas, 1951	15	(2)
The Big Bands: Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955	17	(4)
Hearing Parker the First Time	21	(1)
The Follies Burlesque, Market Street, Kansas City	22	(3)
Delivering Eggs to the Girls' Dorm	25	(2)
Rave On	27	(8)
PART TWO
The Memory of a Possible Future	35
Blood Rain	28	(12)
The Death of a Psychic	40	(1)
History	41	(2)
The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West	43	(2)
Luck	45	(2)
A Roman Grave	47	(1)
On the Passing of Jesus Freaks from the College Classroom	48	(1)
Brazil	49	(2)
Weather Report	51	(1)
The Second Annual Wizard of Oz Reunion in Liberal, Kansas	52	(2)
The Welder, Visited by the Angel of Mercy	54	(5)
PART THREE
The Blue Buick: A Narrative	59	(28)
Three Poems by Roy Eldridge Garcia	87	(8)
Mlle Pym	89	(1)
The Levitations	90	(1)
A Man in a Machine Shop	91	(4)
PART FOUR
A Wall Map of Paris	95	(2)
A Photograph of the Titanic	97	(2)
The Deposition	99	(2)
A Starlit Night	101	(1)
Motion Sickness	102	(2)
At the Cafe de Flore	104	(1)
At Omaha Beach	105	(1)
W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Keystone Hotel, San Diego	106	(2)
The Problem	108	(2)
Two Scenes	110	(5)
PART FIVE
The Memory Palace	115	(8)
Notes	123