Moreness / poems by Louis Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Louis, 1942-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Phillips, Louis (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Prologue Press, [2002]

Contents:

Complaint to my muse

Invitation to my reader

On the 750,000 words or so in the English language

There are only a few words in English to describe the sound of rain

Approximately 20 excuses for this not being a better poem

Young woman standing at a virginal

One summer evening

Another delicate balance

Another delicate balance (2)

So much this richness, this world of lost pages

So much this richness, this world of lost pages (2)

Death wish

The mysteries of poetry

Public enemy #1

Just another apostrophe to discontent

Just another apostrophe to discontent (2)

Night weather

What were we thinking

Swearing in

Old men listening to the rain

Banderilleros

Johnny Inkslinger takes up his cue and takes on Frank Christian Ives in a game of 14.2 Balkline

Johnny Inkslinger takes up his cue and takes on Frank Christian Ives in a game of 14.2 Balkline (2)

Johnny Inkslinger takes up his cue and takes on Frank Christian Ives in a game of 14.2 Balkline (3)

Walking past me

Kilroy journeys to the green chapel to have his head chopped off

Kilroy journeys to the green chapel to have his head chopped off (2)

Kilroy journeys to the green chapel to have his head chopped off (3)

But that's how life is

On significance

Bette Midler and me at Columbia at the same time

Bette Midler and me at Columbia at the same time (2)

Irrational impulses of life

Irrational impulses of life (2)

Peering into the head of the poet and then turning away with disgust

Your entire life is a call & response

In search of Saint America with Jack Kerouac

In search of Saint America with Jack Kerouac (2)

Wallop

Getting along without Dimaggio

Getting along without Dimaggio (2)

Getting along without Dimaggio (3)

Getting along without Dimaggio (4)

Getting along without Dimaggio (5)

Late afternoon in the trailer park

Plovers, turnstones & surfbirds

Alliegances to the dead

Mare liberum

My son has an eating disorder

Love poem to my wife

Other landscapes we dare not be so easy with

The very brightness of the world

String theory

Abbreviato

Biology 101: the terrors of closeness

Love song for my wife

Final examination: Poetry 101

Final examination: Poetry 101 (2)

The suitcase

The suitcase (2)

What more can be said?

Resilience

Prototype

Looking at the nature of faith

Tides

Anguish

Leda goes 15 rounds with a giant swan

Leda goes 15 rounds with a giant swan (2)

If you think about it

Living without touching

Let the gods in me run joyous

Let the gods in me run joyous (2)

The damage that writing does

Not everyone enjoys poetry as much as other poets do

Existence

Solar flares

Words engraved upon a cigarette lighter

Why I am not a world class scholar

What I need

The eyes of this poem

2001.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3 signed by the author.

OCLC:

51755458