Mr. Bluebird

by Pearlberg, Gerry Gomez

• ISBN13: 9780299193249
• ISBN10: 0299193241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-28
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

"Mr. Bluebird, the second collection of poetry from award-winning author Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, explores the intersections between ecology, the imagination, urban nature, lesbian nature, and the nature of the human heart. The book is as much a cry of sorrow in the face of the biological holocaust as a celebration of the wild creatures and places that remind us of what sanity looks and feels like.

Author Biography

Gerry Gomez Pearlberg is the poetry editor at Bark: The Modern Dog Culture Magazine.

Table of Contents

Making My Move	3	(1)
Flicker	4	(1)
Monroe	5	(2)
The Moment You've Been Waiting For	7	(1)
Another Story	8	(3)
Processional	11	(3)
Free Looking	14	(2)
Springs	16	(3)
Portrait of a Neighbor's Tree in Bloom	19	(3)
Camperdown Elm	22	(2)
Birding Update	24	(1)
Futurity	25	(3)
Event	28	(1)
Down	29	(1)
From the St. Francis Sonnets	30	(5)
Migration	30	(1)
Alchemy	31	(1)
Succession	32	(1)
``A Bird in the Body it Came With''	33	(1)
Regeneration	34	(1)
Dislodging Esperanza	35	(1)
Smokestack Seen from the Air	36	(1)
Industrial Trinity	37	(1)
Dream Extraction	38	(2)
Muse Prescriptions	40	(1)
Things I Question	41	(1)
Heavens to Mergatroid!	42	(2)
City of Suchness	44	(3)
Predictions	47	(3)
Dead Constellation	50	(1)
From the St. Augustine Sonnets	51	(5)
Thirst	51	(1)
Pact	52	(1)
Admission	53	(1)
Thy Creature	54	(1)
The Death & Life of Paul Bowles	55	(1)
A Chance of Snow Later	56	(1)
Untitled Stations	57	(1)
Mr. Eggroll	58	(4)
Goodbye Mr. Chips	62	(5)
New Italian Cinema (Napoli Dust)	67	(2)
What Movie Not to See	69	(1)
Paint	70	(1)
Transubstantiation	71	(2)
For You, Anything	73	(1)
Cling	74	(1)
Somewhere in Wistconsin	75	(1)
Fin de Fiesta	76	(5)
candela	76	(1)
cascada	77	(1)
espina	78	(1)
Ilamarada	79	(1)
Dhammapada	80	(1)
Ghost-Mattress	81	(2)
A Troubled Mind	83	(1)
My Tumulus	84	(1)
Equipoise	85	(2)
Litany At Dusk	87	(2)
Climbing Yesterday	89	(5)
Inside the Hour	94	(4)
Betsy McCall	98	(3)
Acknowledgments	101	(2)
About the Author	103