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Early occult memory systems of the lower midwest / B.H. Fairchild.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairchild, B. H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle West--Poetry.
- Middle West.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 125 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, 2004.
- Summary:
- B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers -- failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, a psychic who foresees her own death, and the last remaining cast members of The Wizard of Oz. This collection journeys through the intersections of imagination and history across the plains of the Midwest.
- Contents:
- Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest 7
- Moses Yellowhorse Is Throwing Water Balloons from the Hotel Roosevelt 8
- Mrs. Hill 11
- The Potato Eaters 13
- Holy Rollers, Snyder, Texas, 1951 15
- The Big Bands: Liberal, Kansas, Summer of 1955 17
- Hearing Parker the First Time 21
- The Follies Burlesque, Market Street, Kansas City 22
- Delivering Eggs to the Girls' Dorm 25
- Rave On 27
- The Memory of a Possible Future 35
- Blood Rain 28
- The Death of a Psychic 40
- History 41
- The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West 43
- Luck 45
- A Roman Grave 47
- On the Passing of Jesus Freaks from the College Classroom 48
- Brazil 49
- Weather Report 51
- The Second Annual Wizard of Oz Reunion in Liberal, Kansas 52
- The Welder, Visited by the Angel of Mercy 54
- The Blue Buick: A Narrative 59
- Three Poems by Roy Eldridge Garcia 87
- Mlle Pym 89
- The Levitations 90
- A Man in a Machine Shop 91
- A Wall Map of Paris 95
- A Photograph of the Titanic 97
- The Deposition 99
- A Starlit Night 101
- Motion Sickness 102
- At the Cafe de Flore 104
- At Omaha Beach 105
- W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Keystone Hotel, San Diego 106
- The Problem 108
- Two Scenes 110
- The Memory Palace 115.
- ISBN:
- 0393325660
- 9780393325669
- OCLC:
- 61696315
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