Fear of Dreaming : The Selected Poems

by Carroll, Jim (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140586954
• ISBN10: 0140586954
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Table of Contents

Living at the Movies	p. 1
Blue Poles	p. 3
The Distances	p. 4
The Narrows	p. 6
August	p. 7
Traffic	p. 8
Styro	p. 9
Morning	p. 10
Next Door	p. 12
The Green Bus	p. 13
The Loft	p. 15
In the Valley	p. 16
The Burning of Bustin's Island	p. 17
Love Rockets	p. 18
The Other Garden	p. 19
Heroin	p. 21
Poem	p. 23
Birthday Poem	p. 24
Seltzer	p. 26
Living at the Movies	p. 27
Your Daughter	p. 29
Fragment: Little N.Y. Ode	p. 30
Cough Syrup	p. 31
One Flight Up	p. 32
How Relaxed	p. 33
For Ezra Pound	p. 34
The Blue Pill	p. 35
Blood Bridge	p. 36
Poem on My Son's Birthday	p. 37
Crossed Wires	p. 38
Leaving N.Y.C.	p. 39
A Fragment	p. 40
Vacation	p. 41
A Short Reminder	p. 43
Gliding	p. 45
To a Poetess	p. 47
The Cosmopolitan Sense	p. 50
Growing Up	p. 52
Poem	p. 53
Cold Faces	p. 54
To the Secret Poets of Kansas	p. 55
Jet Fizzle	p. 56
Sea Battle	p. 57
An Early Morning Crucifixion	p. 58
Invisible Sleep	p. 59
Sure. . .	p. 61
Fear and Trembling	p. 62
After St. John of the Cross	p. 64
Little Ode on St. Anne's Day	p. 66
Chop Chop	p. 67
Silver Mirrors	p. 68
Highway Report	p. 69
Dog Crunch	p. 71
Love Poem (Later)	p. 72
California Poem	p. 73
Withdrawal Letter	p. 74
Maybe I'm Amazed	p. 76
Mercury Clouds	p. 78
New Year 1970	p. 79
Midnight	p. 80
Prell	p. 81
Back Home	p. 82
For Sue's Birthday	p. 83
Song	p. 85
Poem	p. 86
Love Story	p. 87
In This Room Particularly	p. 88
The Tenth Try	p. 89
Love Poem	p. 90
For Your Birthday	p. 91
On the Rush	p. 93
Words from Babylon	p. 94
Torn Canvas	p. 95
The Birth and Death of the Sun	p. 96
It Doesn't Matter	p. 97
Chelsea May	p. 98
Savage Bubbles	p. 99
Paregoric Babies	p. 101
An Apple at Dawn	p. 102
The Book of Nods	p. 105
Trained Monkey	p. 107
With van Gogh	p. 108
A Poet Dies	p. 110
Homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins	p. 112
Watching the Schoolyard	p. 117
Guitar Voodoo	p. 118
My Father's Vacation	p. 122
Quality	p. 123
Post Office	p. 124
The Ice Capades	p. 126
"The Academy of the Future Is Opening Its Doors . . ."	p. 127
Parting the Reeds	p. 128
The Lakes of Sligo	p. 129
Lenses	p. 130
A Beach Landing	p. 131
Zeno's Final Paradox	p. 132
Paraguay	p. 133
The Safe Corridor	p. 134
Rimbaud Scenes:	p. 136
Rimbaud's Tooth Ache	p. 136
Rimbaud Sees the Dentist	p. 137
Waking in a Painter's Loft in Paris	p. 138
Rimbaud Running Guns	p. 138
Rimbaud Pays Homage to Saint Helena	p. 140
Confederate Lake	p. 142
One Hundred Years of Boredom	p. 143
Silent Money	p. 144
Scouting	p. 146
Five Irresponsible Students of Zen	p. 147
The Buddha Reveals Himself	p. 149
Me, Myself, and I	p. 150
Teeth Marks	p. 151
Reaching France	p. 153
In the Law Library	p. 154
In the Capital	p. 155
Stepping Out of M.O.M.A.	p. 156
Days	p. 157
The Transient	p. 164
Just Visiting	p. 167
New York City Variations	p. 171
Poems 1973-1985	p. 195
Poem	p. 197
Winter's Age	p. 198
For Elizabeth	p. 199
Prologue	p. 201
M. Verdoux, The Wife Killer	p. 202
A Night Outing	p. 203
Wing and Claw	p. 204
The Ad Man's Daughter	p. 205
Saint Theresa	p. 206
In Four Seasons	p. 207
Dead Salamander's Song	p. 208
Painting by Flashlight	p. 209
Heroes	p. 210
Nightclubbing	p. 211
Post-Modernism	p. 212
The Caves	p. 213
Judging the Pageant	p. 214
El Hombre del Ombre	p. 215
A Window in Cherry Valley	p. 216
On Tour	p. 217
Dueling the Monkey	p. 218
A Child Growing Up with the Sun	p. 219
For John Donne	p. 220
Eugene, Oregon	p. 221
Our Desires	p. 222
My Debt	p. 223
On Susan's Birthday	p. 224
Poem	p. 225
Dresden to Chesapeake Bay	p. 226
In the Deep Green Vase	p. 227
Poem	p. 228
The New Death	p. 229
The Runners	p. 231
3 Short Poems:	p. 232
Poem	p. 232
Compassion	p. 232
Cinco de Mayo	p. 232
Things That Fly	p. 233
For Robert Smithson	p. 234
Borges Death Mask	p. 235
The Desert Casino	p. 236
Music Television	p. 237
Sleeplessness	p. 238
In the Gears	p. 239
New Work 1989-1993	p. 241
Curtis's Charm	p. 243
A Perfect Stranger	p. 255
I Am Not Kurt Schwitters	p. 257
Calm Under Fire	p. 259
Fear of Dreaming	p. 260
Poem	p. 261
Epiphany	p. 262
Inauguration Day	p. 264
In Time, AIDS	p. 266
Song	p. 267
Evening News	p. 268
Praying Mantis	p. 269
Micky	p. 270
To the National Endowment for the Arts	p. 271
Coda	p. 273
About the Author	p. 275
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