Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds

by Ball, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780822959755
• ISBN10: 0822959755
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-28
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Angela Ballrs" s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.

Author Biography

Angela Ball is professor of English in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and poetry editor for Mississippi Review.

Table of Contents

My days at sea	p. 3
Our tigers	p. 5
Journal for Baudelaire	p. 6
New country	p. 7
On sports	p. 8
Society for the dissolution of learning	p. 9
Rimbaud's ears	p. 10
Power	p. 11
Spring	p. 12
What to wear for divorce	p. 13
Closet of desserts	p. 14
Less-than-stylish ennui	p. 15
My genuine correspondence with Lord Byron	p. 16
True story	p. 17
Two things that didn't happen to me	p. 18
How things work	p. 19
Color film	p. 20
My conference with Guillaume Apollinaire	p. 21
Someday I'll take again my lightning drive through love	p. 22
Jazz	p. 23
Pup	p. 24
Annulment	p. 26
Bee	p. 27
To Percy Bysshe Shelley	p. 28
Disabled power steering	p. 30
Inadequacy	p. 32
High-rise	p. 33
Planet of distraction	p. 34
Lift	p. 35
Fence	p. 36
Temp	p. 39
Once	p. 40
My boyfriend : a confession	p. 41
Nurse Kiki on WCW	p. 42
Singles	p. 44
Bob's our uncle	p. 45
Balm	p. 46
The band	p. 48
Someone is messing up the roses	p. 49
Our lodger	p. 50
Boathouse	p. 51
Why I should be a concierge	p. 52
That was me	p. 53
Difficult daughters	p. 54
How need makes beauty	p. 55
The dress with books on it is too small	p. 56
My mettle	p. 57
Big colt	p. 58
Good night, Mr. know-it-all	p. 59
For larry rivers	p. 60
Piecework	p. 61
My background	p. 62
My audition	p. 63
Bone	p. 64
Phoning Frank O'Hara	p. 65
O Apollinaire, O Quai d'Orsay, O Luxembourg	p. 66
Provisions	p. 67
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