They don't kill you because they're hungry, they kill you because they're full / Mark Bibbins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bibbins, Mark, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 106 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

They do not kill you because they are hungry, they kill you because they are full

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2014]

Summary:

From his sardonic title onward, Mark Bibbins confronts readers with formally innovative and socially alert writing that lays bare the discombobulation of collective and individual existence. "If you're going to carry your gorgeous head around / in a sack," he advises, "let it be / this beige plastic one." Bibbins pulls such figures as Medusa, Andy Warhol, and Pat Robertson into poems that incite thorny yet spirited examinations of power, sexuality, and gender. Roving across the weird human landscape, these poems counter dread with wit, chaos with clarity (and sometimes more chaos), reminding us that the suffering contained in any historical moment is "small // compared to what." Burning Candygram We call ourselves the future, country and mean to say final, try to chew audibly enough, that we can find one another in the unceasing night that swings, its black ax through us. We're attuned to crash's register, illnesses' inscriptions, sharks, lingering near the spigot that raises and raises some more the seas. I refuse to argue-no energy-and I won't grovel. I need you to enjoy me nearly as much as an umlaut changes the sound of the waves. Book jacket.

Contents:

Breakout Session 3

You'll Get Better Attention When You Die 5

I Can Explain 6

Unity, Utility, Ubiquity 7

Evacuate the Premise 9

Pedagogy and Performance 10

In the Corner of a Room Where You Would Never Look 12

Terminal 14

Factory 16

Confidence 18

In Which the Pathetic Fallacy Wants to Even More 19

Desire Loves Disaster 21

Spring, or, I Don't Know Everything Is Wrong with Me 23

Honky 24

Worst Things First 26

Speedy 27

Summer's Other 28

Thunderbride 29

Medusa 32

Dear Rotten Garden- 40

The Editors 41

What Are Predators but Parasites That Kill You Faster 43

Burning Candygram 45

Almost as Good as What We Destroyed 46

The Bell Is a Recording 48

Strategy 51

Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 1 52

Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 2 53

Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 3 54

Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 4 55

Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 5 56

Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 6 57

Historical Action Figures 58

The Perspective Fairy 59

Bowerbird 61

The Year Is Always Two Years Ago 63

Junior National Treasure Cemetery 65

Grief! 66

Better Than Okay, with Androgyny 67

Being Our Pictures 68

A Place I Plan to Admire as Much as One I Can't See 69

The Anxiety of Coincidence 71

My Brightness Burton 72

Look Who Came Dressed as the Sun 74

Poem That Wants to Know If We Need Anything from the Store 75

Poem That Wants to Know When You're Taking out the Trash 76

Poem That Wants to Serve You Comfort and Despair 77

Poem That Wants to Be Something Rather Worse 78

Poem That Wants to Use Revelation 3:16 as an Epigraph 80

Poem That Wants to Be Less Amazed by a Man in a T-Shirt That Says 82

Similes Liberation Army 83

The Beginning of How We Started Dying 84

Further Strategies for Trapping the Dead 85

Witness 87

By the Number 3 93

Our Fairy Decorator 95

Storylines 97

Clouds Mistaken for Nearby Clouds 99

Two More 100

This Land Is Mylar 101

A Small Gesture of Gratitude 102.

ISBN:

9781556594588

1556594585

OCLC:

852031349