The Feast

by Bargen, Walter

• ISBN13: 9781886157392
• ISBN10: 1886157391
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Bkmk Pr/Umkc

Summary

Poetry. Writer Debra Di Blasi calls The Feast, "a work of subversive genius, particularly relevant to today's political and cultural climate." Bargen calls this latest work a prose poem sequence, meaning a collection that has the energy, rhythm, and imagery of poetry, while also having the narrative thread and characters of a novella - even if the narrative is held together by a tenuous thread, such as a repeating image. In THE FEAST, the retelling of the biblical Jonah, swallowed by a great fish, becomes the book's underlying organizing principle.

Table of Contents

Some Doubts	9	(4)
Belly of the Beast
Before the Beginning	13	(1)
No-Jon-Ah	14	(1)
Jonahic Dislocations	15	(1)
[e-mail]	16	(1)
Whalular Throbosis	17	(1)
Keeping Whale Hours	18	(1)
Orpheus Fishlove	19	(2)
Sun Screen	21	(1)
Psalm 66	22	(3)
Nine Lives on the Western Front
Paleolithic Conversation	25	(2)
Exorcism of the First Spoon	27	(2)
Exhausted Spectrum	29	(2)
Citrus of Difference	31	(2)
The Procession of Pears	33	(1)
Nine Lives on the Western Front	34	(1)
The Sleep of Angels	35	(1)
Armies of Love	36	(1)
Geneva' Conventions on War	37	(4)
Baltic Days
Being Its Time	41	(2)
The Black and Blue Book	43	(2)
Twilight of the Dogs	45	(2)
The Unnatural Daughter	47	(2)
Either/And	49	(2)
Macchiato	51	(2)
Night Elegies	53	(2)
The Unseasonal Town	55	(4)
Captive Flights
Delphic Chicken	59	(1)
The Rising Flocks	60	(1)
Occupations	61	(2)
Some Good Ideas To Dream	63	(1)
Rain of Shoes	64	(1)
Thick with Rumors	65	(2)
Avian Cuisine	67	(4)
Shadows of Troy
South by Southwest	71	(1)
Born Under Glass	72	(2)
Odysseus in Springfield	74	(5)
Odysseus Exits KC	79	(3)
Odysseus Skips the Revolution	82	(3)
Keelhauled	85	(1)
At the Abyss	86	(3)
The Feast
Giant Dirty Trick	89	(1)
Magic Morning at the Zoo	90	(2)
The Missionary's Other Position	92	(2)
Garden of Delights	94	(3)
Unholy Rooms
Shaking Yggdrasil	97	(1)
Historica Dentata	98	(2)
The Sickness of Buildings	100	(1)
Alias	101	(1)
Pain in the Neck	102	(1)
Triathlon	103	(1)
Immolators	104	(3)
Sea Sea Rider
Sea of Time	107	(2)
Sea of Us	109	(2)
Sea of Love	111	(2)
Ocean of Lonely	113	(1)
Mansion with One Sea	114