Eduardo & "I" : prose poems / Peter Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Peter, 1951-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

54 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Eduardo and I

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, [2006]

Summary:

"Peter Johnson takes his place alongside today's most original prose poets"-Morton Marcus

A new collection of prose poems from the author of "Pretty Happy" and "Miracles and Mortifications," the latter of which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. This darkly comic book takes the reader on two separate but interrelated journeys. Eduardo is part alter ego and part cultural artifact, recalling Berryman's character Henry from the "Dream Songs."

Peter Johnson is the founding editor of the "Prose Poem: An International Journal" and teaches at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.

Contents:

I This cave-my sadsick head 1

II Eduardo, wash that finger 2

III Like a desert beneath a tearless sky 3

IV Eduardo likes sex 4

V Eduardo thinks he's Bukowski 5

VI What does it take to be a Viking? 6

VII "Life is worth living," I tell Eduardo 7

VIII I judge a theodicy 8

IX It has come to our attention 9

X Eduardo has a ringing in his ears 10

XI Time to fess up 11

XII Speaking of which ... 12

XIII "How to be the next big thing." 13

XIV Eduardo is writing a memoir 14

XV Be it acknowledged 15

XVI O monstrous city 16

XVII "There's this electricity ..." 17

XVIII Entropic Eduardo and I 18

XIX To hang upside down 19

XX A lonely life 20

XXI We're starting a band 21

XXII What's a life without animals? 22

XXIII Ladies and Germs, Eduardo's sick again 23

XXIV Sometimes I'm cruel to Eduardo 24

Overture 27

The Deep Footprints of God 28

The Half-Full, Half-Empty Episode 29

Trees 30

That Permanent Poetic State 31

Bang! 32

Hawk 33

Attention All Beatrices! 34

Massaging the Ass of a Pregnant Woman 35

Snow 36

My Life on the Links 37

Names 38

Dog People 39

Neighbors 40

The City 41

Snails 42

Sandals 43

The Great Fire 44

The Whole Truth 45

A Big Tragedy 46

Explanation 47

Just Listen 48

I Know You're Probably Sick of Me 49

One Hell of a Year 50.

ISBN:

1893996468

OCLC:

65192703

Publisher Number:

9781893996465