Mating Season

by Gale, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781932195170
• ISBN10: 1932195173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: Tupelo Pr

Summary

This is Kate Gale's fifth book of poetry. Known for her gutsy, sensual, dark and glittery poems, this is work about the world as it is: hard, cold, asking you for your money and then shooting you anyway. One of a new breed of very successful, edgy poets, Gale is unwilling to soft-soap the way the world works. These poems are tingling, raw and clouded with sadness. Kate Gale has a doctorate in English literature from Claremont and is managing editor of Red Hen Press. In addition to poetry, she has published one children's book, a novel and is the editor of four anthologies. She lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

The Cemetery	11	(2)
Crying in Front of a Man	13	(1)
Sunflowers	14	(2)
The Diggers	16	(2)
Roll the Dice	18	(1)
Elizabeth	19	(1)
Drowning	20	(1)
Hotel Room, Patterns of Light	21	(1)
Coffee and Cigarettes	22	(2)
Brewer	24	(2)
Mating Season	26	(1)
Demanding Barbados	27	(1)
Crab Cake Special	28	(2)
Newton's Bar	30	(2)
Lilac Season in Catalina	32	(1)
Blue Heron, Chaos	33	(1)
Jagged Pieces of Language	34	(3)
Blue Russians	37	(1)
Marriage to an Artist	38	(2)
Happily Ever After	40	(2)
Daughter	42	(1)
Son	43	(1)
Foreign Objects So Close to Home	44	(2)
Direct Action	46	(1)
Necessary Solitude	47	(1)
Baby Powder	48	(1)
Pillar of Salt	49	(1)
Modele	50	(2)
Shattering Blind Windows	52	(1)
Goldenrod	53	(1)
The Prisoner's Wings	54	(2)
Mulholland Drive	56	(1)
Solomon's Problem	57	(1)
Tequila	58	(2)
Thursdays I Spend by The Window	60	(1)
The Boxer	61	(1)
Dominoes	62	(2)
What Jamie Saw	64	(1)
Lunar Contamination	65	(1)
The Night I Saw Jesus	66	(1)
Ecstasy	67	(1)
Winter Melons	68	(2)
Sphere	70