Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry

by Norton, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781892494535
• ISBN10: 1892494531
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Rattapallax Pr

Summary

Short Fuse is the first major global collection of poetry from the 21st-century featuring many of the poets who are defining world literature and culture. Over 175 innovative poets from around the world are represented in this remarkable 400-page volume, ebook & CD. The fusion poets define these complex times through new forms of performance and text by mixing the best of the oral and written traditions. The hundreds of poems in this eclectic and powerful gathering are ferocious, funny, erotic, elegiac, and always grounded in the real experiences and voices of our startling present. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
Lost in the Dust: An Introduction	p. 19
CD Contents	p. 8
eBook Contents	p. 9
Aftermath Poem	p. 23
She Wore Yellow Rubber Gloves to Drive	p. 24
Let Me Show You My Childhood in Colours	p. 24
The Natural History of Errol Flynn's Cock	p. 25
My Son, To Me	p. 27
When I Close My Eyes	p. 27
Switch	p. 29
Butterflies	p. 30
The Laughing Stock	p. 31
The Origins of the Milky Way	p. 32
Poststructuralist Interpretations of the Signs of Self-Starvation or the Linguistic Rationalism of High Culture	p. 34
Herniated Disc	p. 34
June Bug	p. 35
Listening	p. 38
Days That We Couldn't Rehearse	p. 39
The Umbrellas	p. 40
So Clever	p. 41
Announcement	p. 42
Morgan's Bones	p. 42
The War Against Books	p. 43
Space Travel	p. 46
Yashmak (May 2001)	p. 47
Encore	p. 48
At the Softs, The Silks	p. 48
In Particular	p. 50
Zero Star Hotel	p. 53
The Brave Kathleen	p. 54
Two Ways of Regarding Radishes	p. 56
Identical Twins	p. 57
Fragments	p. 58
Swing	p. 59
Est	p. 61
Moth Glitter	p. 61
"Poe Was Right"	p. 62
Sky Without Heroes	p. 64
Open Letter	p. 65
Sudden Blows	p. 66
Ruskin and Millais and Effie and Rose	p. 67
Poetry	p. 68
Chapstick	p. 68
Peter Pan Bus Line	p. 68
Hair	p. 68
Alfred Hitchcock	p. 68
David Lynch	p. 68
Stanley Kubrick	p. 68
Upon Recalling the Filipino Dishes I Do Not Know How to Cook	p. 69
Mr. Chalk	p. 70
Office Upon Earth	p. 71
Notice to the Mayor (Faise Memo I)	p. 71
Warwick Office Machines (False Memo II)	p. 72
Anti-Erotic Poetry Series	p. 72
Lake Amnesia	p. 75
A Deli on First Avenue	p. 76
Descent	p. 77
Skydiving Narcissus	p. 77
The Tattooed Man	p. 78
Flight	p. 79
A Signal	p. 79
Your Sweet and Difficult Narcissism	p. 80
Cyclorama	p. 81
Wow and Flutter	p. 82
Poet of the Day	p. 83
Don't Tell Me	p. 84
Guestipe	p. 85
The Law of Direction	p. 85
Keep Away From Children	p. 86
When You Rub Yr Wet Centre	p. 88
Courage	p. 89
Screwbox	p. 89
Where	p. 89
Cut Me a Line of Poetry	p. 90
Litany for Keeping Safe	p. 92
Time & Cock	p. 93
The Mad Cow of Time	p. 94
From the Safe House	p. 96
Exile's End	p. 97
The New Grey	p. 98
O'Hara	p. 98
In the Biography of Broken Things	p. 99
When the Snow Arrived	p. 100
The Housesitter	p. 101
Essential Oils	p. 102
Arrivals Area	p. 103
Ideal Hollywood Career-Path	p. 105
Encyclopedia Botanica	p. 107
I'm Being Followed by David Beckham	p. 111
Rosary	p. 112
Died for Love	p. 112
Born Under a Rhyming Planet	p. 113
The City	p. 116
The Company of Poets	p. 118
Saint Boy	p. 119
She is Dreamin' That Her Father	p. 120
SMS Me Baby	p. 121
Half a Sonnet	p. 123
Broken Bone Boy	p. 124
The Care Service	p. 125
I Chew My Gum and Think of Rifles	p. 126
Loveloss	p. 127
Midweek Litotes	p. 127
In Defense of Misers	p. 128
Other Davidians	p. 129
You Should Have Killed the Monkey First	p. 129
Spider-Sense	p. 131
Pissing Off Ezra	p. 132
Catlali Drew a Cat on My Computer	p. 133
Sick and Tired	p. 134
Small Meat Doll	p. 135
Sentences or Performances	p. 135
Boyfriend's 27th Birthday	p. 137
This Girl I've Been in a Cab With	p. 139
My Clothes Dealer	p. 140
5 Minutes with the Communist Manifesto	p. 141
Illegible Woman (Breasts & All)	p. 143
My Life is So Good It's Depressing	p. 145
Clothes Catalogue	p. 146
Sacred Explosions	p. 148
Information Technologies in Anglo-America	p. 149
The Poetic Swordsman	p. 150
Brand the War	p. 151
Why Things Burn	p. 151
You Never Forget Your First	p. 153
The Babysitter	p. 154
The East End Motel	p. 156
Ipanema	p. 158
Pillar	p. 160
Red Biros (The Inspiration of Spilled Milk)	p. 162
Killer Jeans	p. 163
Color/Space/Time	p. 164
Shoes Were Invented When History Became an Ugly Carpet Over the World	p. 167
Asleep at Your Life	p. 169
A Brief History of Those Who Made Their Point Politely And Then Went Home	p. 171
Cunning Linguist	p. 172
Starfucking Closer to Home or What Happens When You Reach for the Stars and They Reach Back	p. 173
Impressions	p. 176
Pisarro's Harmony	p. 176
The Ball	p. 176
April Moon	p. 176
Manet in Venice	p. 176
They Are Off!	p. 176
Occasional Spontaneity	p. 176
Waver	p. 176
Crazy Hollhocks	p. 176
Out of Shoes	p. 177
Duck	p. 177
Just Stand There	p. 177
Hanging the Laundry Out to Dry	p. 177
Lie on Grass	p. 177
Sunset	p. 177
Entrance	p. 177
Generic Love Poem	p. 177
Post-Modern Girl	p. 178
Pilot	p. 179
Alibi	p. 180
Emigrant	p. 180
Six Portraits of the Literary Life	p. 181
The Brief Return of the Girl in the Grey Knit Skivvy	p. 182
How Do Detectives Make Love?	p. 184
Sheep Run	p. 186
Home Coming	p. 187
The Pointlessness of Poetry	p. 189
Television	p. 189
Guilt	p. 190
Tryst and Isobel	p. 191
Velocity	p. 193
The Cupboard	p. 194
The Hill-Track	p. 195
Reykjavik the City of Seasons	p. 196
Chemical Mood	p. 197
Who Made It?	p. 198
In the Empire of Grief. II	p. 200
Resurrection Fresco: Scene I	p. 203
Wait Late	p. 204
Scream	p. 205
The Tale of the Horse-Leech	p. 207
Three Prayers	p. 210
Vision--The Conqueror	p. 212
Forward--The Determinant	p. 213
Pulsar	p. 214
3 Studies of a Rotary Hoist	p. 215
London	p. 216
When the Sky Fell	p. 218
Chimney Fish	p. 219
Amazed by Clouds	p. 220
Melbourne's Most Maladjusted Pigeon	p. 220
Legend	p. 222
A Pyramid of Glasses	p. 222
Walk That Thing	p. 223
Scissors in a Cross	p. 223
The Emperor's Small Change	p. 224
The Waiter	p. 225
The Bone Drum	p. 225
Overcast	p. 226
Newscaster	p. 227
Stand-up Comic	p. 228
Not Myself	p. 228
Other People	p. 229
Our Lady With a Dragnet	p. 231
Orthodoxy	p. 232
When I Was in Paris	p. 232
Shoe	p. 233
Sniper on Leave	p. 234
Crow	p. 234
Renovating the Womb	p. 235
When I Haven't Been Kissed	p. 235
The Jeffrey McDaniel Show	p. 236
The Passion Tree	p. 237
The Biology of Numbers	p. 237
For Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)	p. 238
English 318: Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson (6 Credits)	p. 241
Rocket to Resurrection	p. 242
Sonnet in C-Legs	p. 243
The End of the World (September 2001)	p. 244
Clockman	p. 246
Out of My Skin	p. 246
Chivalry is Not Dead	p. 247
Wednesday Afternoon	p. 248
Spoon	p. 248
With All Our Souvenirs	p. 249
The Fox in the National Museum of Wales	p. 250
Words Ploughed into Shares	p. 252
Bamboo	p. 254
Two Temperatures for Snow	p. 255
Albert Einstein in America	p. 256
Moonlighter	p. 257
Quoting Yourself	p. 257
Description	p. 258
Without Need for Sleep or Reason	p. 258
Recreation	p. 259
Line 4	p. 260
Sounds Like	p. 260
Song: Habeas Corpus	p. 260
Aubade	p. 262
Lavoisin and Lavigoreux	p. 263
Now 50% More Half Baked!	p. 264
Letter to Andy Kaufman	p. 265
Letter to Jewel	p. 265
Driving to Vegas Along Main Street	p. 266
My Love	p. 268
I've Never Dated a Woman Who Wore High Heels	p. 269
Baby Snot on My Shirt at Fresh Fields	p. 270
A Short History of Risk	p. 270
Be-Bop	p. 271
Brother Lo and the Maxims	p. 272
StrangePlastikRobot	p. 273
The Campaign Against Real Poetry	p. 274
Poetry is the New Coarse Angling	p. 276
Naming the Pleasures	p. 277
The Lesson	p. 278
Talkbackradio	p. 279
Hot Date	p. 281
Volcano Vertigo	p. 284
Last Night Betty	p. 286
Ken	p. 287
Ma Sonic!	p. 288
How to Swallow a Pig	p. 289
The Non-Violent Boxer	p. 290
Hip Hop Hollas	p. 291
On Being Blackpool	p. 295
Twenty-Seven Stares	p. 297
Split a Bottle	p. 298
Happy Hoover	p. 299
Corruption	p. 300
Pink	p. 301
A Love Supreme	p. 301
Fireflies in a Jar	p. 303
Statistic	p. 306
Flag on a Stick	p. 307
After The Refit of the Clifton Street Spar	p. 309
The New History Syllabus	p. 311
Nineteen	p. 313
Sound Off	p. 315
Desert Super Lotto	p. 316
Martyrs and Men	p. 320
Root 2 Fruit	p. 321
Ice Cream Bars	p. 323
To Have Conceived	p. 324
Text Formerly Know as a Poem	p. 325
To the Woman, Quite Obviously Not Trying to Fly, Who Fell With Her Legs Closed, Arms Pressed Against the Front of Her Body, While Primly Clutching Her Purse	p. 331
Bitch	p. 335
Opportunity	p. 336
Magic Tape	p. 336
Letting You Down Gently	p. 337
Good I Can Be	p. 338
Penguins Ad Infinito	p. 338
Universal Masturbation	p. 338
Lorena	p. 339
July 21	p. 340
Letters in Your Absence	p. 342
Our Lady of the Unauthorized Biography	p. 343
Couplets	p. 345
Sheer Speculation	p. 346
In My Father's Briefcase	p. 347
Noir	p. 348
Third Decade	p. 348
"The Seine Today Was Restless"	p. 350
Nobility	p. 351
Maria C. Dies From a Lack of Imagination	p. 352
7 AD: Royal's Love Poem	p. 352
Wedding Vow	p. 353
Ceilings	p. 353
Incompatible	p. 354
That's How Bees See	p. 355
Plate Tectonics	p. 356
What to Say When Criticising Poetry	p. 357
Business Lunch	p. 358
Damning with High Praise	p. 359
The Drive (Home)	p. 359
Do You Have Something a Little Less Totalitarian?	p. 363
Peesacho	p. 364
The Gilded Rat	p. 365
Untitled Haibun	p. 366
Midnight's Boxer	p. 367
Strictly Ballroom	p. 368
Dogs Eating Fantales in the Foyer of the Plaza Hotel, New York	p. 369
Donkeys and Antelopes	p. 371
(Confessional)	p. 372
Net Escape	p. 373
Nutri-Stein	p. 374
High School Diary Entry #1	p. 374
On the Collection of Ethnic Memorabilia	p. 375
In Search of an American Language (Or, After Being Accused of "Coding")	p. 376
Seeing Elle MacPherson	p. 377
Shallow	p. 379
Anthem for My Daughter	p. 380
Notes on the Poets	p. 383
Permissions & Acknowledgements	p. 400
CD Contents
Peesacho (2.02)
Ideal Hollywood Career-Path (2.45)
Atta Poem (3.13)
The Venus Hottentot (2.32)
The Stones in Their Array (1.35)
Control Freak (3.07)
On the Analyst's Couch (1.13)
Viagra (2.15)
She Never Called Me Back (2.05)
Love (1.25)
Shoes Were Invented When History ... (2.51)
Johnny Cake Hollow (1.04)
Baby Snot on My Shirt at Fresh Fields (0.21)
Sitcom For A Ghost Writer (0.31)
Don't Build Your House on the Beat (4.52)
Be-Bop (0.25)
Flight (1.11)
Everything I Know About Aphids (2.50)
What are you going to do with your life? (1.34)
In the Future (1.51)
Century's End (0.53)
Osama bin Laden (2.20)
MAR (4.10)
Old Elvis Clips (0.51)
She (1.47)
Matt Plays a Girl (2.23)
Vegas (4.12)
A Deli on First Avenue (2.15)
Asleep at Your Life (3.04)
Skydiving Narcissus (0.49)
Where is This Place? (5.12)
The Company of Poets (3.11)
Almost That Fable (1.15)
Crow (3.44)
eBook Contents
Armistic
A Rugby Team Lost in the Andes
Remembering 2 Boys
Shit
Upon Recalling The Filipino Dishes ...
Resume II
The Key
Vessel
The Swear Box
After
"Tug Dumbly Is A Catholic Blowjob"
Like Decoration
Let Me Be
Doof
What is this place
At the Wall
Beauty is Dating the Beast
Emily Dickinson Term Paper
Karmadeddon
"My trip to toronto staying at my parents' place"
Like the Path
Over the line
Hand Carved Idol from Minsk
Special Effects
The Waterfall Frogs
Single White Male Fridge
A Tune
About Your Poem ...
Salt Lake City
Arsonist
The Foxhole Diaries
Seven Haiku For Spontaneous Human Combustion
21st Key
My Ass is Burning
Don't Build Your House on the Beat
Goldfish Poem
Thigging
Bone-head battle ...
The Republic
Wedding Poem
Blair Apparent
Thursday Poem
Death by Heat
Teratophobia ...
Seven Eights Are Fifty-six
Blocking signals to the heart
Scarlet
Color-Blood-Love
The thousand-yard stare
Gameshow Cowgirl
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