High Water Mark

by Shumate, David

• ISBN13: 9780822958581
• ISBN10: 0822958589
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Author Biography

David Shumate is an assistant professor of English at Marian College in Indianapolis.

Table of Contents

I
The Rain	3	(1)
The Polka-Dot Shirt	4	(1)
The Japanese Rooms	5	(1)
How to Sit in a Cafe	6	(1)
Prescription for Insomniacs	7	(1)
What Hemingway Learned from Cezanne	8	(1)
The Institute of Cool	9	(1)
A Nazi in Retirement	10	(1)
The Blue Period	11	(1)
Lifesaving	12	(3)
II
Coronado Rises in the Stirrups	15	(1)
All Seas Belong to Neruda	16	(1)
Hitler's Barber	17	(1)
Ferlinghetti's Ears	18	(1)
Custer	19	(1)
Three Kings	20	(1)
With Fitzgerald along the Cote d'Azur	21	(1)
Mornings with Freud	22	(1)
The Psychic Geography of Atlantis	23	(4)
III
Household Buddhas	27	(1)
A Saint for You	28	(1)
The Shape of the Human Soul	29	(1)
Infant	30	(1)
Teaching a Child the Art of Confession	31	(1)
The Machinery of the Soul	32	(1)
Martyr	33	(1)
The Wasted Day	34	(1)
On Finding a Landscape I Painted as a Child	35	(1)
The Buddha of Arithmetic	36	(3)
IV
Country Music	39	(1)
Passing Through a Small Town	40	(1)
Tornado	41	(1)
The American Dream	42	(1)
Bomb Shelter	43	(1)
Shooting the Horse	44	(1)
Tabloid Headlines	45	(1)
Critic	46	(1)
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere	47	(1)
Reading to the Blind Man	48	(1)
May I Interest You?	49	(1)
Accordion Lessons	50	(1)
The Id	51	(1)
Testicles	52	(3)
V
Afternoon Nap	55	(1)
Visitation	56	(1)
Graveyard	57	(1)
The Ambassador of the Dead	58	(1)
The Art of Forgetting	59	(1)
Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night	60	(1)
The Slaves of My Ancestors	61	(1)
Armor	62	(1)
The Funeral of the Moon	63	(1)
Warehouse	64	(1)
Old Age	65	(1)
Mushrooms	66	(1)
High Water Mark	67	(1)
The Immortal	68	(1)
Acknowledgments	69