Taking Down the Angel

by Friedman, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9780887484001
• ISBN10: 088748400X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

A collection of poems by Jeff Friedman.

Table of Contents

One
My Father out of the Wind	11	(1)
Two Salesmen	12	(3)
Learning to Box	15	(2)
Heat Wave	17	(2)
Rain	19	(1)
Miss Strong and I	20	(3)
Bomb Pops	23	(2)
Learning to Sell Fuller Brush	25	(2)
Stardust, 1967	27	(3)
The Field Behind the Old NuWay Cleaners	30	(2)
Burial at the River	32	(3)
Two
Esau	35	(2)
First Job	37	(2)
Marvin Miller Gets His Shirts	39	(2)
Walking	41	(1)
The Bitterness of the Prophet	42	(3)
Orpheus in Williamsburg	45	(2)
Achilles	47	(2)
King David	49	(2)
Taking down the Angel	51	(1)
Joseph	52	(2)
On the Banks of the Mascoma	54	(2)
Conversation	56	(2)
The Face	58	(2)
Jacob	60	(2)
The Squatters	62	(3)
Three
1965, Dusk	65	(2)
On the Riverfront	67	(3)
Listening at Night	70	(2)
Oak Knoll	72	(3)
Mr. Clark's Last Class	75	(2)
Manifest Destiny	77	(2)
Finding the Action	79	(4)
Working the Loading Dock at Famous-Barr	83	(2)
Bowling Instruction	85	(3)
Poem for Larry Levis	88	(2)
Burp Water	90	(4)
I Talk to My Father Ten Years After his Death	94	(2)
In the Kingdom of My Palm	96	(2)
Vigil	98	(2)
Recital	100