5 options
My heart is that eternal, Rose Tattoo / John Yau.
Van Pelt Library PS3575.A9 M94 2001
Available
LIBRA - Special PS3575.A9 M94 2001 copy 4
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
LIBRA - Special PS3575.A9 M94 2001
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
LIBRA - Special PS3575.A9 M94 2001 copy 3
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
LIBRA - Special PS3575.A9 M94 2001 copy 2
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yau, John, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--21st century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-4)
- Yau, John, 1950- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- In this collection of surreal, dreamlike prose vignettes John Yau explores the territory first laid out in his Forbidden Entries (Black Sparrow, 1996). Yau's startling journey takes us across wastes of "cities fluttering with lost ghosts" and asks the question "what are you doing now that you're here?"
- Contents:
- Samarkand Update
- Copied from the Margins
- Copied from the Margins (2)
- Swan
- Another Name for It
- Almost Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Scenes from Family Life
- While Waiting for the Weather to Retreat
- The Perfectionist
- Shorter Version
- Opening Scene
- Robert Walser Speaks about Robert Walser
- Untiled I
- Untiled II
- Untiled III (A False Painting)
- Untiled IV
- Untiled V (Unsent Postcard)
- Untiled VI (In Place of a Dream)
- Untiled VII
- Untiled VIII (Movie Plots #13 through 39)
- Untiled IX (Posted Postcard)
- Untiled X (False Painting #2)
- Untiled XI (after Franz von Stuck and Arnold Bocklin)
- Untiled XII
- Untiled XIII (First Variation on XII)
- Untiled XIV
- Untiled XV (After an Unknown Artist)
- Untiled XVI
- Untiled XVII
- Untiled XVIII (Guide to Museum Collection)
- Untiled XIX (Recent Acquisitions)
- The Last Emperor Lives on the Moon
- Cadmium Deposits, Cobalt Traces, and Ocher Mist
- Heraclitus's Parking Lot
- Film Adaptations of Five of America's Most Beloved Poems
- Genghis Chan, The Film
- Lake Country
- The Long Way Around
- Double-Headed Creature Features
- The Story So Far, and Not One Step Farther
- The Shortest Distance between Two Walls
- Summer Rental
- Summer Hiatus
- Poem Based on a Non-Existent Photograph
- Our Small but Perfect Town
- The Difference Between Autobiography and Romance
- The Dog and Pony Opera
- I'm Just a Factory Boy
- Second Chapter
- Side Street Adjacent to Lower Breughel Parkway.
- Notes:
- "This first edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies; 100 hardcover copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 22 copies lettered A-V are handbound in boards by Earle Gray each with an original artwork by John Yau"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is first edition published in paper wrappers, number 59, signed by author.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is hardcover edition numbered and signed by author, no. 57.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 3 is hardcover edition.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 4 is paperback edition.
- ISBN:
- 1574231707
- 9781574231700
- 1574231693
- 9781574231694
- 1574231685
- 9781574231687
- OCLC:
- 48375759
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.