The Virgin Formica

by Mesmer, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9781931236928
• ISBN10: 1931236925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr

Summary

Poetry. "Whether taking surreal leaps and bounds over the trash and beauty of cityscapes or drawing gnomic liness from woodland views, Sharon Mesmer's poems are timed to rise with those moments when 'things are always beginning or becoming' or to settle in 'a way to hear Hope talking or maybe listening.' At turns intimate or boisterously satiric, THE VIRGIN FORMICA can gently detonate or erupt, carrying readers along on ripples or shockwaves"--Paul Violi. Sharom Mesmer's other poetry collections include ANNOYING DIABETIC BITCH, Vertigo Seeks Affinities, Half Angel, Half Lunch, and Crossing Second Avenue. Her prose collections are Ma Vie Yonago, In Ordinary Time and The Empty Quarter. Lonely Tylenol, an art book in collaboration with the painter David Humphrey, was published in 2003. She is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in poetry.

Table of Contents

In the Spiritual History Office
Canticle	p. 11
Just This	p. 13
My Juice	p. 15
Never Lose Your Sense of Wonder	p. 17
Stupid University Job	p. 21
Brenda Coultas's Coat	p. 22
Retarded Aerosmith World	p. 23
What Becomes Us	p. 24
What It is	p. 26
Laid	p. 29
Eddie Boback's Dead	p. 30
Three Pietas	p. 31
Summer, Elizabeth Street	p. 32
The Awful We Party	p. 33
Splendor Crowds the Periphery	p. 34
The Solitary Mage	p. 35
In the Spiritual History Office	p. 36
In Damp Weather Everything Conducts	p. 38
Good Sleepin' Weather	p. 40
Homestyle Favorites	p. 41
Lou Reed's New York	p. 42
Rebuilding the City of the Future	p. 44
Madame Bowery
Madame Bowery	p. 47
The Virgin Formica
Why You Came Back	p. 57
Blue-Collar Typeface	p. 58
At Princess Olga's	p. 60
Lonely Tylenol	p. 62
For the Time Being	p. 65
Gait Signatures	p. 68
Flowers	p. 73
The Virgin Formica	p. 74
Tourist in a Phantom America	p. 77
Begin Transition	p. 79
What You Were Dreaming Of	p. 82
On the Occasion of Turning Forty at the Age of Forty-Two	p. 85
By the Waters Off Brooklyn	p. 86
I'm Not Sorry	p. 90
Song of Myself	p. 91
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