The flash of lightning behind the mountain : new poems /
Presents 143 new poems from one of America's greatest modern writers and most influential poets.
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New York, NY :
Ecco,
c2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- German
- The old girl
- The birds
- Game day
- Gas
- Mystery leg
- Be cool, fool
- An unliterary afternoon
- Poop
- The end of an era
- The 60's
- The would-be horseplayer
- The night Richard Nixon shook my hand
- Throwing away the alarm clock
- Pretenders
- $1.25 a gallon
- Floss-job
- A friendly place
- The old couple
- What?
- Born again
- Card girls
- It's never been so good
- Goading the muse
- The wavering line
- The road to hell
- Crucifixion
- Barfly
- Thoughts while eating a sandwich
- Nothing's free
- What bothers them most
- Into the wastebasket
- It's over and done
- Nice guy
- Feet to the fire
- The poetry game
- The fix is in
- Photos
- Tonight
- A visitor complains
- Besieged
- The novice
- Cleopatra
- Please
- The barometer
- Enemy of the king, 1935
- (Cont.) Nights of vanilla mice
- Lark in the dark
- Lonely hearts
- B as in bullshit
- A riot in the streets
- Interlude
- d.n.f.
- Reading little poems in little magazines
- How to get away?
- The difficulty of breathing
- Help wanted and received
- Heart in the cage
- Places to die and places to hide
- Poem for the young and tough
- Ow
- My doom smiles at me
- Hey, Kafka!
- A strange visit
- 1970 blues
- Snow white
- Sour grapes
- Fencing with the shadows
- A hell of a duet
- The dogs
- Cold summer
- Crime does pay
- Throwing my weight around
- They rolled the bed out of there
- Crawl
- Nothing here
- My last winter
- First poem back
- A summation
- Walking papers
- Alone in this room
- Farewell, farewell
- About the mail lately
- Life on the half shell
- The hardest
- A terrible need
- Body slam
- The gods are good
- The sound of typewriters
- (Cont.) A fight
- Sunbeam
- Apparitions
- Speed
- It's difficult to see your own death approaching
- Made in the shade (Happy New Year)
- One for Wolfgang
- Night unto night
- Notes on some poetry
- The buzz
- A simple kindness
- Good try, all
- Proper credentials are needed to join
- Silly damned thing anyhow
- Moth to the flame
- 7 come 11
- Put out the light
- Foxholes
- Calm elation, 1993
- I have this new room
- Writing
- Human nature
- Notations
- Democracy
- Kraznick
- Hungaria, Symphonia poem #9 by Franz Liszt
- Club Hell, 1942
- Unloading the goods
- Saratoga hot walker
- The sixties?
- Experience
- Fame at last
- Party of nine
- He showed me his back
- The unfolding
- Drunk before noon
- Thumbs up, thumbs down
- They are after me
- Feeling fairly good tonight
- There's a poet on every bar stool
- Valet
- Prescience
- (Cont.) 10:45 a.m.
- The horses of Mexico
- A big night
- A musical difference
- You tell me what it means
- Dear reader:
- Not much singing
- The shadows
- A pause before the counter attack
- Picture this
- 9 bad boys
- One more day.