What's Written on the Body

by Pereira, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781556592522
• ISBN10: 1556592523
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-20
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr

Summary

Pereira's double-life as a medical doctor and word-playful poet offers an enriching perspective.

Table of Contents

Anagrammer	p. 3
Turbidophilia	p. 4
Tete-a-tete	p. 5
Possessed by words	p. 6
"Man convicted of killing wife second time"	p. 7
Oniomania	p. 8
Scrabbling	p. 9
The devil's dictionary of medical terms	p. 10
Genesis/gin sees	p. 12
Reconsidering the seven	p. 13
Holy shit	p. 14
Lost in translation	p. 16
Fugue	p. 17
Think or swim	p. 18
Webster's new words : 2003	p. 19
Anagrammer 11	p. 20
Alchemy	p. 21
Turning straw into gold	p. 22
Body talk	p. 24
Weekend healing	p. 26
Laying on of hands	p. 29
Scald	p. 30
Beauty mark	p. 31
Nursemaid's elbow	p. 32
Inattentive	p. 33
What the skin cutter feels	p. 34
Practicing	p. 35
Case history : persephone	p. 43
Damn fag	p. 44
The push	p. 45
What's written on the body	p. 46
Radiation (the sun room)	p. 48
Tremor	p. 49
Tic Douloureux	p. 50
Y	p. 51
Attending rounds	p. 53
Dream of the cancer cure	p. 54
Butterfly bush	p. 57
Abandoned lot	p. 59
The scholar's garden	p. 60
The Garden Buddha	p. 61
Lettuce weather	p. 62
Aesop's dog	p. 63
Dante reconsiders Paradise	p. 64
The judas tree	p. 65
The young priest	p. 66
Mount baker in August	p. 67
The corpse flower	p. 68
The cruciverbalist	p. 69
Night-blooming cereus	p. 70
Breathing lesson	p. 72
Hearts	p. 73
Burning the nests	p. 74
Crossing the pear	p. 75
Ravenna at Dusk	p. 79
Sweat equity	p. 80
Perfect pitch	p. 81
Channeling madge	p. 82
After The Pillow Book	p. 83
Missing e	p. 84
Ganymede to Zeus	p. 85
Devil's bridge	p. 86
The flowerless branch	p. 87
Taken	p. 88
Doppelganger	p. 89
Twenty years after his passing, my father appears to us in Chicago, at Bobby Chinn's Crab & Oyster House, in the guise of our waiter, Ramon	p. 90
October journal	p. 92
Serafina	p. 96
Aeschylus in the park	p. 98
Night walk	p. 99
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