Routine Disruptions : Selected Poems and Lyrics, 1960-1997

by Elmslie, Kenward

• ISBN13: 9781566890779
• ISBN10: 1566890772
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

This long awaited "selected" presents the full range of Elmslie's inventive, vulnerable, lyrical and autobiographical work.

Table of Contents

Trek Aids: An Introduction	i-iii	(2)
from Circus Nerves	17	(18)
Circus Nerves & Worries	17	(1)
Communique for Orpheus	18	(4)
City of My Dinge World, Venice	22	(2)
Ancestor Worship	24	(2)
Fringe People	26	(1)
Halloween Loop	27	(1)
Nov 25	28	(2)
Awake on March 27th	30	(1)
First Frost	32	(3)
from Album	35	(12)
White Attic	35	(1)
Four Scenarios	36	(2)
Aztec Dinner Dance	38	(2)
Revolutionary Letter	40	(2)
Breech Baby	42	(2)
Paper Suns	44	(3)
Poem Songs	47	(22)
Air	47	(1)
Bio	48	(2)
Eggs	50	(2)
Sin in the Hinterlands	52	(2)
Bang-Bang Tango	54	(2)
Sneaky Pete	56	(2)
And I Was There	58	(1)
Adele The Vaudeville Martinet	59	(1)
Meat	60	(1)
Girl Machine	61	(8)
from Motor Disturbance	69	(26)
Fruit	69	(1)
The Dustbowl	70	(2)
History of France	72	(4)
Shirley Temple Surrounded by Lions	76	(2)
The Power Plant Sestina	78	(2)
Japanese City	80	(2)
Jan 24	82	(2)
Feathered Dancers	84	(2)
Fig Mill	86	(4)
Motor Disturbance	90	(5)
from Tropicalism	95	(26)
Routine Disruption	95	(1)
Middle Class Fantasies	96	(2)
Winter Life	98	(6)
Visual Radios	104	(2)
Time Lags	106	(2)
Coda	108	(1)
Tropicalism	109	(12)
Song Lyrics I	121	(16)
Lie With Me, Sweet John	121	(1)
They	122	(2)
Brazil	124	(2)
One Night Stand	126	(2)
Marry With Me	128	(2)
Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain	130	(2)
Andrei's Lament	132	(2)
Beauty Secrets	134	(3)
from Moving Right Along	137	(22)
Easter Poem for Joe '79	137	(1)
Squatter in the Foreground	138	(1)
Black Froth	139	(3)
Monster Worship I	142	(1)
Monster Worship II	143	(1)
Communications Equipment	144	(2)
August	146	(2)
In The Sky	148	(2)
One Hundred I Remembers	150	(9)
from Sung Sex	159	(18)
Four Vermont Haikus	159	(1)
Nov 17	160	(1)
Pullmanette	161	(1)
Rug Boast	162	(2)
Kitchen	164	(2)
Mindless Bliss	166	(3)
The Thirties	169	(1)
The Sixties	170	(7)
Song Lyrics II	177	(30)
Schlock 'n' Sleaze R & B	177	(4)
Seventeen Years of Living Hell	181	(5)
Moments in Time	186	(2)
Take Me Away, Roy Rogers	188	(3)
It's A Good Life	191	(3)
Lads	194	(4)
Somdomite	198	(4)
A Secret Sacred Niche	202	(2)
Love Song	204	(3)
Poems 1991-1998	207
Champ Dust	207	(13)
Bare Bones	220	(10)
Animals in the Walls	230	(1)
Spring in Argentina	231	(1)
Local Branch	232	(2)
Jakarta Night Arrival	234	(2)
Sunday in Dunedin	236	(3)
Welcome Home	239	(1)
Rummage Sale	240	(1)
Panopticon for Calamity Winifred	241	(1)
Outback Taunt	242	(4)
Forty Sonnet	246	(1)
Fiscal Nonsense	247	(5)
Happy Re-Return	252