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9780984459834

A Fast Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780984459834

  • ISBN10:

    0984459839

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-05-10
  • Publisher: Nightboat Books
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Summary

A Fast Life establishes Tim Dlugos--the witty and innovative poet at the heart of the New York literary scene in the late 1970s and 1980s and seminal poet of the AIDS epidemic--as one of the most distinctive and energetic poets of our time. This definitive volume contains all of the poems Dlugos published in his lifetime, a wealth of previously unpublished poems, and an informative introduction, chronology, and notes assembled by the volume's editor, poet David Trinidad.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chronology
About My Work
Philadelphia: 1970-1973
Cosmogony
"Sit on the mountain, young gentlemen."
Beyond the Light and the Rocks
Guillaume de Lorris
Surf Music, Tea with Honey
Night Kitchen
Lindfors as Mother Courage
Loon Dance
Last Poem, First Morning
"I really like your poems,"
"Who will have whom in the next life?"
"I could not find a pen"
Michael
"Nicotiana-Sensation"
David Cassidy
Last Letter
"All the poems I ever write won't tell me"
Poem for Pascal, I'm Going Away
After Parting
"Here is the blond world of Sunday morning:"
An Undelivered Class Presentation on the Subject of Gay Consciousness
"David Cassidy, I want to fuck you!"
A Note
Heading Into the City
Niagara
Watching Psycho for the First Time
For Michael Lally
For My Cousin, Christine Spring (1948-1971)
Were Wolf
Small Poem
"How long can one be blackly humorous?"
Morning Offering
John Tongue
After Separation
Shelly Winters
Letter Poem
Allentown
On TV
"fell asleep stoned second"
Dan Propper
Poem After Dinner
Note to Bob Chamberlain
Ash Wednesday
5 Poems
Chris Street
Chris Street II
Friday Night
Joe
Crabs? No Crabs
Second Anniversary
WASHINGTON, D.C.: 1973-1976
Crazy
Death By Drowning
Ninety-One Degrees
Things I Might Do
On Seeing Gary Cooper Wake Up in Bed with Walter Brennan in The Westerner
Compensation
High There
Next Chapter
The Way We Are Now
Two Things a Star Wouldn't Do
Haiku
Mescaline
Famous Writers
September 12
Ten Movies
Flaming Angel
Out of Love
Night Life
Incredible Risks
The High Air
After Anne Hershon's Party
Poem for Jeanne
The Third Sex
After a Line By Ted Berrigan
NYC Diary
Note and Sonnet
So Far
Gangster of Love
Day Light
Mallarme
Dream Series
Death Series
Homage to P. Inman
Too Far
American Baseball
Gilligan's Island
The Black Forest
Under the Sky
President Truman
Let's Go / From Journal
As It Is
Where I Stand
Note to J.A.
Great Art
The President's Son
Je Suis Ein Americano
Tarot for My History
Great Books of the 1950s
Some
Stanzas for Martina
Clubs I've Joined
"Light shines through the leaves"
A Fast Life
Prisoners of the Heart
At the Point
Poppers
Powder Puff
Strong Feelings
Poles Apart
For Years
Sleep with Paul
Lunch with Paul
Sonnet ("my nixon imitations cut across")
Sonnet ("a fast life Roscoe's, 4 p.m.")
Day for Paul
You Are There
Knowing It
Song from Dreams
The Death of a President
Sonnet ("The river fills with shining rain, the way")
White Petals
2 Fragments for Steve Hamilton
Jet
Manhattan and Brooklyn: 1976-1988
Thomas Merton Lived on Perry Street
Note to Michael
Terminal Days
"cool air in my chest it's"
I Remember Spinner
New Hope
Sonnet ("The night he leaves, you find a shiny dime")
Key Strokes
Sonnet ("Fronds plummet from the treebelt to the street")
To JB from KW
Cross Dress
In London
Bindo Altoviti
Tetracycline Days
The Best of Gaucho
The Young Poet
The Steven Hamilton Sestina
Qum
"Once I Let a Man Blow Me"
Flipper
Gone with the Wind
Pastorale
How I Got My Books
The Rubber Lady
"as if Nantucket were Archangel, icebreakers"
Nerves
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash,"
Amsterdam
The Absence of Light and a Drawing by Edward
The Cost of Living
Song of Bernadette
Entre Nous
Thanksgiving Sonnet
New York's Numbers
Negative Credit
Chez Jane
Sunday, Brooklyn Heights
The Confessions of Zeno
Grist
From Journal ("Picking up background material for a copy assignment...")
Harbor Lights
Columbia Livia
Foo Dog Blues
East Longmeadow
Rego Park
There's Something about the Dying
Philip's Razor
If I Were Bertolt Brecht
Janet's Repentance
Tim Dlugos, Young Republican
Obscure Destinations
The Glorious Mysteries
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Desire Under the Pines
Brian and Tim
The Lions of St. Mark's
A Way of Life
Three Wishes for the Murdered Sisters
A Birthday Note to Karen
Sodom
Whores de Commerce
Solidarity
Twenty-Four Hour Massage
For Dennis from Delirium
Epithalamium
Sometimes I Think
Film
From Journal ("The Apparition at La Salette to the children...")
Steve Reich and Musicians
Not Stravinsky
May Rain
The Bar
Psalm
From Journal ("On most perfect sunny morning of the year...")
Close
Wall Street Sauna
Song
On This Train Are People Who Resemble
June 25th
"Don't know why"
Failed Pilot
Summer, South Brooklyn
My Death
Harding's Beach
If We're So Fucking Smart Why Aren't We Rich
New Music
Myron and Milton's Caprice
To Clear Things Up, Scott
Columbus Day
No Sympathy
Sonnet ("Joe Jackson walks into the Ninth Circle")
Sonnet ("Stevie Nicks walks into the Parisian weather")
Spy of Love
The Nineteenth Century Is 183 Years Old
Green Acres
A Sense
Foot Gear
The Influence of Alcohol Upon History
The Morning
Pretty Convincing
Music That Makes Me Cry
Another You
Tonight
Week
This Much Fun
Lit
Spinner
Octavian
Armagnac
Cape and Islands
"Fame the insatiable cousin"
The Fruit Streets
Four Organs
Words for Simone Weil
Trinidad
Christopher Isherwood
Healing the World from Battery Park
July
King of the Wood
"Know you not"
" In which meaning is a quantity,"
"Night goes up in... smoke? No, fog"
"Go gently into that good morning,"
"O say, can you see?"
"Fresh as red air of Tuscany, the dawn"
To Walter Lowenfels
"Hercules becomes Celestial"
"Exult now, all you angels and archangles,"
Where Is Art?
"Old man, look at my life"
October
"Dear heart, wish you or I were here or there..."
Gerrit, Bagel and
Here Comes the Bride
Destalinize the Sky
Moral Imagination
Awash in Angels
Fan Mail from Some Flounder
Retrovir
New Haven and Manhattan: 1988-1990
The Certitude of Night
Come in from the Rain
No Voice
The Traps
West 22nd Street
Ash Wednesday
Palmer
Ordinary Time
Erosion
Et In Arcadia Ego
Friends Service
Signs of Madness
All Souls Day
Parable
Powerless
G-9
Harmony in Red
Etiquette in 1969
Your New House
Turning
"I used to love an architect,"
"I'm as sick as my secrets."
Sonnet ("I didn't want to tell you that I kept")
It Used to Be More Fun
The Far West
Station
Prayers, Works, Joys, and Sufferings
Saying It Simply
Virgins and Martyrs
Radiant Child
The Truth
Fools for Christ
Heartless Words
The Sixties
Mehr Licht
Good Morning
Swede
Parachute
Breathing in Connecticut
Hoosier Rhapsody
Goodbye to Chrysis
As Alive
Sleep Like Spoons
Anne Frank House
Lagoon Capriccio
Turandot
D.O.A.
Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Names
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