Sleeping With Houdini

by Andrews, Nin

• ISBN13: 9781929918997
• ISBN10: 1929918992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

The leading female voice of American prose poetry reinvents Houdini as a metaphor.

Table of Contents

Falling	p. 11
Making the Sun Rise	p. 12
Houdini	p. 13
The Game	p. 14
Aspirin	p. 15
The Invisible Girl	p. 16
Just the Thing	p. 17
Brown Apples	p. 18
Cormorants	p. 19
Names	p. 20
Sweet Tarts	p. 21
Young Ladies	p. 22
Lime Green Teddy	p. 23
Menses	p. 24
The Summer I Turned Thirteen	p. 25
Dust	p. 26
Like This	p. 27
The Tunnel	p. 28
Sleeping for Kafka	p. 30
Burning Point	p. 33
Nightmare	p. 34
The Cat	p. 35
Lying	p. 36
The Portable Pussy	p. 37
The Accidental Seduction	p. 38
Satori	p. 39
Any Kind of Excuse	p. 40
Deja Vu	p. 41
The Kiss	p. 42
The Magic and Mystery of an Empty Street	p. 43
Pepper Facts	p. 44
When a Woman Loves a Man	p. 45
Man-thing	p. 47
Male Logic	p. 48
Black Magic	p. 49
Always Have a Joyful Mind	p. 50
Asuncia	p. 51
Crossing	p. 52
My Houdini	p. 53
Sleeping with Houdini	p. 54
Twenty-seven in a Row	p. 57
Zen 101	p. 59
Two Lives	p. 60
The Divorce	p. 61
The Aftermath	p. 62
Shadows	p. 63
The Ideal Survey	p. 64
My Life as a Spy	p. 65
Zip Codes	p. 67
The Bed and I	p. 68
The Beautiful Lie	p. 69
Winging It	p. 71
Dear Confessional Poet	p. 73
Book Jacket	p. 74
Advice About Angel Poems	p. 75
The Last Frenchman, or What I Learned in High School French	p. 76
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