Metaphysical dog /
Bidart, Frank, 1939-
Metaphysical dog / Frank Bidart. - First edition. - 113 pages ; 22 cm
Poems.
Includes bibliographical references.
Metaphysical dog -- Writing "Ellen West" -- Like -- Those nights -- Name the bed -- Queer -- History -- Hunger for the absolute -- Defrocked -- He is Ava Gardner -- Mourn -- The enterprise is abandoned -- Janáček at seventy -- Threnody on the death of Harriet Smithson -- Dream of the book -- Inauguration day -- Race -- Glutton -- Whitman -- Three tattoos -- As you crave soul -- Things falling from great heights -- O ruin o haunted -- Plea and chastisement -- Martha Yarnoz Bidart Hall -- Late Fairbanks -- Against rage -- For the AIDS dead -- Tyrant -- Mouth -- Rio -- Presage -- Elegy for earth -- Of his bones are coral made -- Poem ending with a sentence by Heath Ledger -- Dream reveals in neon the great addictions -- Ganymede -- On this earth where no secure foothold is -- For an unwritten opera.
0374173613 (alk. paper) 9780374173616 (alk. paper)
2012048069
Metaphysical dog / Frank Bidart. - First edition. - 113 pages ; 22 cm
Poems.
Includes bibliographical references.
Metaphysical dog -- Writing "Ellen West" -- Like -- Those nights -- Name the bed -- Queer -- History -- Hunger for the absolute -- Defrocked -- He is Ava Gardner -- Mourn -- The enterprise is abandoned -- Janáček at seventy -- Threnody on the death of Harriet Smithson -- Dream of the book -- Inauguration day -- Race -- Glutton -- Whitman -- Three tattoos -- As you crave soul -- Things falling from great heights -- O ruin o haunted -- Plea and chastisement -- Martha Yarnoz Bidart Hall -- Late Fairbanks -- Against rage -- For the AIDS dead -- Tyrant -- Mouth -- Rio -- Presage -- Elegy for earth -- Of his bones are coral made -- Poem ending with a sentence by Heath Ledger -- Dream reveals in neon the great addictions -- Ganymede -- On this earth where no secure foothold is -- For an unwritten opera.
0374173613 (alk. paper) 9780374173616 (alk. paper)
2012048069