Unlocking the Exits

by Katz, Eliot

• ISBN13: 9781566890793
• ISBN10: 1566890799
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Coffee House Pr

Summary

The author dances with tenacity on the fine line between poetry & politics - engaging in democratic earth-watch that is spiced with surreal imaginings, utopian cravings, personal discovery, & spirited humor.

Table of Contents

DINOSAUR LOVE	9	(2)
ODE TO THE CAR KEYS	11	(10)
THESE HANDS--A PRESENT	21	(2)
TO THE VEGETABLE AISLE	23	(3)
WHAT NO GOD KNOWS	26	(2)
WHEN YOU DRINK SO MUCH FRIDAY NIGHT SATURDAY NEVER ARRIVES	28	(2)
GULF WAR CYCLE	30	(12)
YOUNG EYES OF PARIS	42	(1)
YVES TANGUY PAINTING	42	(1)
TOMBSTONES	43	(1)
PERE LACHAISE	43	(1)
TOULON	44	(1)
SAVED	44	(1)
THE CLOCK	45	(1)
THE GLOBE	45	(1)
A NEW MORNING WARNING POEM FROM THE CHICKEN POX COOP	46	(4)
IN THIS FAILED DEMOCRACY	50	(1)
WHO DOES WHAT TO WHOM	51	(2)
YOU THINK THINGS ARE BAD?	53	(1)
ODE ON MELANCHOLY WAVING GOODBYE	54	(2)
BEHIND THE CURTAIN	56	(1)
THIS PAST DECADE AND THE NEXT	57	(6)
GREG'S NEW HIDEOUT	63	(1)
WHAT THE WOMAN IN THE PASSENGER SEAT SAID	64	(1)
TO THE NJ DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES	65	(5)
AN EMPOWERMENT PROJECT	70	(3)
LOSING NIRVANA	73	(1)
FOR MARK BRADLEY, SONGWRITER & CHEF	74	(2)
BLUES FOR THE MOMENT	76	(2)
MCNAMARA'S GHOSTS	78	(2)
OKLAHOMA CITY	80	(1)
LESSONS FROM AN UNEASY CHAIR	81	(1)
A NOSE FOR BLOOD	82	(1)
THIS LOTTERY'S FIXED	83	(1)
FROM THE DEPTH OF THE DEPTH OF THE ABYSS	84	(1)
THE BACK SIDE OF THE PAINTING	85	(1)
EDISON POST OFFICE, NIXON BRANCH	86	(1)
ONE OF THESE YEARS	87	(1)
MAD COW DISEASE	88	(1)
OLIVE TREES	89	(1)
THESE TWO HANDS	90	(1)
ON THE REBOUND	91	(2)
ELEGY FOR ALLEN	93	(5)
JOSEF SAID	98	(1)
SPRING AT KAFKA'S GRAVE	99	(1)
LIBERATION RECALLED	100	(73)
AT THE END OF THE CENTURY	173