Sad Jazz

by Barnstone, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781931357272
• ISBN10: 1931357277
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-18
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

Author Biography

TONY BARNSTONE is the youngest poet in the Barnstone dynasty. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English at Whittier College, and has published a much acclaimed first volume, Impure, translations of Wang Wei, and textbooks on Asian, African, Latin American and Near Eastern Literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
The Bed
Petrarch: Sonnet 196	2	(2)
Marriage Psalm	4	(1)
Dancing out of the Shower	5	(1)
Kabbalah	6	(1)
It	7	(1)
Falling Through	8	(1)
In Her Dream He Touches Her Shoulder	9	(1)
In a Hotel in Portugal	10	(1)
At Suicide Beach	11	(1)
How To Live in This World	12	(1)
Throwing Stones at the Beach	13	(1)
And the Sea Takes Their Wishes	14	(2)
Thing in the Mirror
Dark Lord	16	(1)
Insect Wings	17	(1)
Zombies	18	(1)
Thing in the Mirror	19	(1)
Nightmare Kiss	20	(1)
The Grave	21	(1)
Spider Woman	22	(1)
Spider Man	23	(1)
The Orchid Creature	24	(1)
He Pays the Bill at the Sidewalk Cafe	25	(3)
The Happiest Man in the World
The Audit	28	(1)
The Happiest Man in the World	29	(1)
He Gets Up off the Floor	30	(1)
She Settled for Him	31	(1)
His Younger Wife	32	(1)
They Had Terrific Sex	33	(1)
He Goes to See the Doctor	34	(1)
After Eighteen Years	35	(3)
What She Said
Petrarch: Sonnet 195	38	(2)
Break up with Him (A How-to Manual)	40	(1)
Another Troy	41	(1)
The Hook	42	(1)
Antonyms	43	(1)
What She Said	44	(1)
What He Heard	45	(1)
What He Tries Not to Say	46	(1)
What Her Father Said	47	(1)
Laughing Poem	48	(1)
Screw the Beatles	49	(1)
A Bowl of Bean Soup	50	(2)
Driving Away from Her
Bad Drivers	52	(1)
After She Sat Down on the Couch and Told Him the Marriage Was Done	53	(1)
The Pits	54	(1)
His Wheels Are Whining	55	(1)
Suicide Road	56	(1)
He Saw Her Car	57	(3)
Aftermath
A Children's Tale	60	(1)
Until She Left	61	(1)
Out, Out, Out	62	(1)
Zero at the Bone	63	(1)
The Bed Is Wide	64	(1)
George Harrison Died around the Same Time His Marriage Did	65	(1)
He Wishes He Were Dead	66	(1)
Sad Jazz	67	(1)
On a Blow-Up Bed in the Study of His Father's Apartment	68	(1)
Cut Off	69	(1)
Insects	70	(1)
Wet Paper	71	(1)
The Ghost Limb	72	(1)
Barbeque	73	(1)
Aftermath	74	(2)
End of the Vacation
Two Tickets	76	(1)
His Niece and Nephew on the Beach	77	(1)
Drinking Cuervo Gold with Andy, Joe and Roman and a Guy from Liverpool Named Sven at Roman's Bar in Serifos, Greece	78	(1)
Heart Sushi	79	(1)
Waking Up Drunk	80	(1)
In These Old European Towns the Streets Wrap Back upon Themselves Like an Insidious Argument	81	(1)
After the Night Swim	82	(1)
Foxes	83	(1)
In the Ghetto	84	(1)
Bright Surface Seen through a Train Window	85	(1)
The Truth Is He Never Was Good at Flirting, But His Friends Did Their Best to Set Him Up	86	(1)
A Cathedral in San Gimignano	87	(1)
End of the Vacation	88	(2)
Get Zen
He Murders His Darlings	90	(1)
Like a Man in a Cubist Painting	91	(1)
Another Drunken Phone Call	92	(1)
Free Minutes on a Cell Phone	93	(1)
The Dao of Being Dumped	94	(1)
Moving Day	95	(1)
The Real Tin Flower	96	(1)
The Intelligent Animal	97	(1)
Get Zen	98	(1)
Refusal to Mourn	99	(1)
He Had Some Sort of Demon Perched Upon His Shoulder	100	(1)
The New Math	101	(1)
Worn	102	(1)
Nathan Tells Him	103	(1)
Waiting for a Bus in Oakland	104	(1)
Notes on the Poems	105