Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 118 pages; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Pitt poetry series

Uniform title

1. Pitt poetry series.

Contents

1. Installing the Bees -- Oranges -- One Hook -- After Being Paralyzed from the Neck Down for Twenty Years, Mr. Wallace Gets a Chin-Operated Motorized Wheelchair -- Prayer for Flowers -- Trout -- Grandmother Grace -- The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home -- The Assistant Professor's Nightmare -- A Hot Property -- "You Can't Write a Poem about McDonald's" -- Picture of Molly, Age 4 -- 1001 Nights -- The Facts of Life -- The Nude Gardener -- This Night -- At Chet's Feed & Seed -- Poem Written Mostly by Fourth Graders -- Matheny -- Nightline: An Interview with the General -- People and Dog in the Sun -- Early Brass -- Bluegills -- Fresh Oysters & Beer -- Off the Record -- Fan Mail -- The Hell Mural: Panel I -- Building an Outhouse -- In the Amish Bakery -- The Fat of the Land -- The Life Next at Hand -- Why I Am Not a Nudist -- A Valentine -- The Story -- The Swing -- Hardware -- Pantoum: The Sturdy of Worry -- Why God Permits Evil -- Ballade of the Humpback Whales -- Teachers: A Primer -- In the Cards -- Grandfather, His Book -- The Friday Night Fights -- Fielding -- Tonight's Lecture: The Effects of Head Wounds on Foot Soldiers, A Case Study -- Panties -- The Bad Sonnet -- L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e -- Les poetes celebres -- The McPoem -- Waxworms -- Skin -- An Essay on Love -- Man Sleeping -- Local Hero -- The Old West -- Redundancies -- Literature in the 21st Century -- Gas -- How Laughter -- General Fuckup -- Failed Poems -- Alas, Thomas Midgley -- Bird Brain -- The Truth -- The Physical -- No Deal -- Claustrophobia -- The Face of God -- Shoes -- Photo from Liberia -- Sayonara -- The Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- Hey Buddy, Need a Lift? -- On Prozac -- SmackDown! -- In the Virgin Islands -- Lucky -- Pleasure -- Blessings.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries