Hot Popsicles

by Webb, Charles Harper

• ISBN13: 9780299209940
• ISBN10: 0299209946
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-20
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

A woman falls in loveliterallywith a house; Werner Heisenberg confronts his own uncertainty; a rat (the rodent kind) runs for president; Hamlet has trouble with his prostate; Superman battles senility and more in this new poetry collection from the winner of the 1999 Felix Pollak Prize for poetry.

Author Biography

Charles Harper Webb is professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, as well as a psychotherapist in private practice. He has published a novel, The Wilderness Effect, and six collections of poems, including Liver, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry.

Table of Contents

PART I
A Stockbroker Dreams a Story	5	(2)
Consciousness	7	(1)
Loving a House	8	(1)
Heisenberg's Uncertainty	9	(2)
The Little Thomas Edison	11	(1)
The Bumblebee	12	(1)
Rat Defeated in a Landslide	13	(1)
Tortoise Retires from the Track	14	(1)
Fisherman Catches a Wooly Mammoth on a Fly	15	(1)
The Big-Foot Factor	16	(1)
To Set Himself off from the Crowd	17	(1)
A Civil Tongue	18	(1)
Hamlet's Prostate	19	(2)
Conan the Barbarian	21	(1)
The Nickel Watch as Instrument of Revenge	22	(1)
Trivial Pursuit	23	(1)
Martians Land in L.A.	24	(1)
Superman, Old	25	(4)
PART II
The Poets	29	(1)
A Word-Consuming Thing	30	(1)
Science of Love	31	(3)
Pomades	34	(1)
Post-Olympic Perspective on St. Thom	35	(2)
Faith, Hope, and Rhonda	37	(1)
Deciding to Have Kids	38	(1)
Escape	39	(1)
The Affair	40	(1)
Something Not Stupid	41	(1)
Know Thyself	42	(1)
A Suspension Bridge across a Chasm	43	(1)
Thumping the Fat	44	(1)
At Supper Time	45	(1)
After the Revolution	46	(1)
Worm	47	(4)
PART III
Spider Page	51	(1)
Blush	52	(3)
A King	55	(1)
Imp of the Verbose	56	(2)
A Ticklish Situation	58	(1)
A Deficiency of Marvels	59	(1)
Cooked Goose	60	(1)
Judge Frosty Presiding	61	(1)
The University of Change	62	(1)
Wooden Foot	63	(1)
Zinjanthropus Disease	64	(1)
Leaving the Zoo	65	(1)
The Good Idea	66	(1)
Hot Popsicles	67	(1)
Making Things Right	68	(1)
Further Adventures of Uncle Scrooge	69