Totem

by Pardlo, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780977639533
• ISBN10: 0977639533
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Amer Poetry Review

Summary

Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, with an introduction by Brenda Hillman.

Table of Contents

Gregory Pardlo's Totem
Landscape with intervention	p. 3
Totem (Truong Chi)	p. 8
Portrait of the artist as a child	p. 9
Title it shotgun wound	p. 10
Libretto	p. 11
Vanitas, Mother's Day	p. ]2
Suburban noir	p. 14
Atlantic City Sunday morning	p. 15
Rolling thunder	p. 17
Man reading in bed by a window with bugs	p. 19
Vincent's shoes	p. 23
Totem (sportin' life)	p. 30
On emptying his house	p. 31
Blank	p. 32
Winter after the strike	p. 33
Vanitas, Baltimore Avenue	p. 35
Double Dutch	p. 36
Oils	p. 38
Family business	p. 40
Chapel Avenue, rain effect	p. 41
Suburban passional	p. 45
Totem (El Cipitio)	p. 47
Volume control	p. 48
Dolphin charter, Cape May, NJ	p. 50
The miniaturist	p. 52
Vanitas, Camden Ferry	p. 53
Private first class	p. 55
Dolores	p. 56
The future as evaporation	p. 57
Antebellum	p. 59
Soundtrack	p. 61
Totem (Jasbo Brown)	p. 72
Brown study	p. 73
Arsonist	p. 75
The notorious antagonisms of Robert "Bathtub" Collier	p. 77
In Canal Street Station late	p. 79
Vanitas, intersection	p. 81
Suburban pastoral	p. 83
Restoring O'Keeffe	p. 84
Man reading in a family room after midnight	p. 86
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