Codes, precepts, biases, and taboos : poems, 1973-1993 / Lawrence Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Lawrence, 1948-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 180 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [2005]

Summary:

The first three books by the author of "Into It" "Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos" brings together the poems from Lawrence Joseph's first three books of poetry: "Shouting at No One, Curriculum Vitae," and "Before Our Eyes." Now in one volume, the poems from these three books can be seen as the work of one of American poetry's most original and challenging poets.

Contents:

Shouting at no One (1983)

I was appointed the poet of heaven 3

Then 7

Driving Again 9

I Had No More to Say 11

Here 13

Between Us 14

I Think About Thigpen Again 15

It Will Rain All Day 17

Before Going Back 19

Not Yet 21

The Phoenix Has Come to a Mountain in Lebanon 25

You Only Exist Inside Me 30

Louie, Son of Hanna Francis 31

Encounter 32

Fog 33

All Day 34

He Is Khatchig Gaboudabian 36

Nothing and No One and Nowhere to Go 41

Stop Talking to Yourself! 45

There Is a God Who Hates Us So Much 46

In the Tenth Year of War 51

Is It You? 52

When You've Been Here Long Enough 53

Just Like You 55

In Each Cell of My Body 56

Do What You Can 57

Even the Idiot Makes Deals 59

It's Not Me Shouting at No One 60

Curriculum Vitae (1988)

In the Age of Postcapitalism 65

My Eyes Are Black as Hers 67

Curriculum Vitae 69

This Is How It Happens 71

Factory Rat 75

I've Already Said More Than I Should 76

This Much Was Mine 79

By the Way 81

In This Time 84

Stop Me If I've Told You 86

Mama Remembers 89

Sand Nigger 90

Rubaiyat 93

In the Beginning Was Lebanon 95

That's All 97

Who to Deny 99

December 3, 1937 101

An Awful Lot Was Happening 102

I Pay the Price 105

Let Us Pray 108

The Great Society 109

London 111

Any and All 113

My Grandma Weighed Almost Nothing 116

On Nature 118

There I Am Again 120

Before Our Eyes (1993)

Before Our Eyes 125

A Flake of Light Moved 127

Material Facts 128

Admissions Against Interest 131

Under a Spell 135

Over Darkening Gold 137

Generation 138

Time Will Tell If So 141

About This 142

Whose Performance Am I Watching? 144

Sentimental Education 146

Out of the Blue 149

Brooding 150

Variations on Variations on a Theme 154

In a Fit of My Own Vividness 157

After All 159

Some Sort of Chronicler I Am 160

Lines Imagined Translated into a Foreign Language 164

Just That 169

A Particular Examination of Conscience 171

Movement in the Distance Is Larger Up Close 173

Now Evening Comes Fast from the Sea 175

Occident-Orient Express 176.

Notes:

Includes author's first 3 books: Shouting at no one, Curriculum vitae, and Before our eyes.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0374125171

OCLC:

61823025