Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brewster, Valerie.
2. Berry, John.

Description

1. 100 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Gay men > Poetry
2. Typefaces (Type evidence) > Caslon
3. Liu, Timothy > Portraits
4. Typefaces (Type evidence) > Janson

Genre/Form

1. Typefaces (Type evidence) – Janson.
2. Typefaces (Type evidence) – Caslon.

Contents

1. That room in which disaster played a part -- Say goodnight -- First day -- The garden -- That summer -- Treasures on earth -- A vision made out of corrugated tin -- Stray dogs -- Crepuscule with mother -- Pietà -- Old diary with a page torn out of it -- Birdsong forever in that childhood house -- Last day -- Kindertotenlieder -- Strange music -- Two men on a swing watching their shadows lengthen -- The storm -- After the storm -- Last day -- A valentine -- Herring Cove Beach -- North Truro -- At Limantour -- Aperture -- For those who do not dream -- Say goodnight -- No other world than this --Nocturnes -- Last day -- Reading Cavafy -- Reading Tu Fu -- Reading Lu Chi -- Apostasy -- The bait -- New colony -- The prodigal son writes home -- Blackout at the white swallow -- His anus as ventriloquist -- Forty years -- A calendar (with months torn off) -- Two men in a rest home looking back at us -- Ten floors up -- Elegy -- Two men on a bench watching the light die down -- Say goodnight -- A baedeker -- The sign -- Action painting -- Nothing but the truth so help me God -- A Boston fourth -- Ode to Bunker Hill -- Power -- Billions served -- Oasis -- The Rand McNally road atlas -- Off I-80 -- The presence of an absence in a Midwest town -- Poem -- Against nature -- March on Washington, 1993 -- Two men in the Hirshhorn walking hand in hand -- Easter, 1996 -- Strange fruit -- Ripened fruit pulled earthward to the ground -- Say goodnight -- Vespers.

Call number

1. JFE 98-12163

Note

1. Book designed by Valerie Brewster, cover designed by John Berry and Valerie Brewster.
2. Photograph of the author on rear cover.
3. Set in Janson Text with Carter & Cone's Big Caslon titles.

Source (note)

1. Gift of the author, June 2, 1998.

Author

1. Liu, Timothy.

Title

1. Say goodnight / Timothy Liu.

Imprint

1. Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c1998.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection

Added author

1. Brewster, Valerie. Book designer
2. Berry, John. Cover designer
3. Liu, Timothy. Donor NN-BGC

LCCN

1. 98008918

ISBN

1. 1556590857

Research call number

1. JFE 98-12163
2. Berg Coll Liu S29 1998