The Floating Bridge

by Shumate, David

• ISBN13: 9780822959892
• ISBN10: 0822959895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Author Biography

David Shumate is poet-in-residence at Marian College in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Far Villages
Mannequins	p. 3
Kafka	p. 4
The Next Village	p. 5
Big Brother Loses His Virginity	p. 6
Fresh Fish	p. 7
Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat	p. 8
Don Quixote	p. 9
Metaphors	p. 10
Translating a Poem	p. 11
The Overwhelming Sadness of the Earth	p. 12
Plum	p. 13
Wisdom	p. 14
The Orange Flags of Babylon
The Orange Flags of Babylon	p. 17
Learning to Eat a Pomegranate	p. 18
The Yellow Bird	p. 19
Picasso	p. 20
The Headless Saints	p. 21
The Amateur Zen Master	p. 22
Trapped Inside a Haiku Poem	p. 23
The Island of Nirvana	p. 24
Rain	p. 5
The Dreams of Children	p. 26
Trains	p. 27
The Long Road	p. 28
The Bible Belt
The Bible Belt	p. 31
The Gods	p. 32
The Ladders of Purgatory	p. 33
Drawing Jesus	p. 34
Jesus's IQ	p. 35
Seduction	p. 36
The Jewish Ghetto	p. 37
Boarding the Bus to Gomorrah	p. 38
Om	p. 39
Zero	p. 40
Halo	p. 41
The House of Death	p. 42
Paris
The Bedouins of Paris	p. 45
Spring in Paris	p. 46
Lucifer	p. 47
The Kissing Institute	p. 48
Pornography	p. 49
French Foreign Legion	p. 50
Gertrude Stein's Gardener	p. 51
Dying Park	p. 52
The Gates of Paris	p. 53
An American in Paris	p. 54
Paris, USA	p. 55
The Floating Bridge
The Floating Bridge	p. 59
Making a Forest	p. 60
A Visit with Dali	p. 61
North Wind	p. 62
Children's Book Illustrations, circa 1890	p. 63
Learning Italian Slowly	p. 64
A Poem I Wrote Thirty Years Ago	p. 65
Chinese Restaurant	p. 66
Welcome Home, Children	p. 67
The History of the Umbrella	p. 68
While I Sleep	p. 69
The Fish	p. 70
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