What is this thing called love / Kim Addonizio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Addonizio, Kim, 1954-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

128 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2004]

Summary:

A new collection of poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award.

From lilting lines about a love that "dizzies up the brain's back room" to haunting fragments betokening death and decline in a suffering world, Kim Addonizio articulates the ways in which our connections -- to the world, to the self, to others -- endure and help make us whole. With irreverent honesty, in the intimate lyric tradition, Addonizio exposes raw emotions that are often only visible when truly confronting ourselves, emotions we don't want to admit -- jealousy, self-pity, fear. Urban imagery and seemingly informal vernacular give these poems a thoroughly modern feel, while the use of classical forms reminds the reader of the continuous human urge to find order in the disarray of our hearts and minds.

Contents:

First Kiss 19

Stolen Moments 20

Blues for Dante Alighieri 21

What Was 22

So What 24

31-Year-Old Lover 25

Muse 27

You Don't Know What Love Is 29

Blues for Roberto 30

Ever After: A Paradelle 31

Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton 33

Ex-boyfriends 34

Dance 36

Death Poem 41

Scary Movies 42

Dead Girls 45

Echo and Narcissus 47

Eating Together 49

Cat Poem 50

Noir 52

February 14 55

And Then I Woke Up 57

In Dreams 59

The Work 61

Fever Blues 63

Washing 65

It 69

Knowledge 71

California Street 72

The Way of the World 73

Dear Sir or Madam 75

One Nation Under God 77

Chicken 80

Missing Boy Blues 82

Human Nature 83

Lush Life 87

Bad Girl 89

'Round Midnight 91

South of the Border 93

Body and Soul 95

Blues for Robert Johnson 97

This Poem Wants to Be a Rock and Roll Song So Bad 98

Bugdom 100

This Poem Is In Recovery 103

Dear Reader 109

On Knocking Over My Glass While Reading Sharon Olds 111

Fuck 113

Augury 116

Proverbial 118

Ceiling 119

Conversation 121

Romance 123

Miniatures 125

Kisses 127.

ISBN:

0393057267

OCLC:

52845795