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Otherwise, my life is ordinary : poems / Bobby Byrd.
LIBRA PS3552.Y66 A6 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byrd, Bobby, 1942- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 121 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : Cinco Puntos Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- How Did This Happen? (essay) 11
- Koan 19
- Sacred Ritual 20
- A Short History of Our Marriage For Our Grandchildren 21
- We Had a Few Things to Say 22
- Benny Has Gone to Live with the Angels 24
- The Great Congressional Budget Battle of April 2011 26
- Kensho on Texas Avenue, El Paso, Texas 28
- The Guy Said I Let My Poems Go On Too Long 30
- Harvey Floats through the Gate 32
- Back Roads to Far Towns 34
- La Luz de la Resistencia -A Light Poem in Memory of Raul Salinas 36
- For Love on 1-10, West Texas 38
- Growing Up in Memphis, #3 40
- In Search of God at the Thunderbird Bar -Placitas, NM 1970 41
- This is Not a Haiku 44
- Elegy on the Death of My Big Brother 45
- In Memory of a Famous Poet 50
- Poem to an Estranged Friend, August 2007 51
- This is How We Became Drunks, Memphis: the 1950s 56
- Just Checking: A Message from my Computer 58
- Portrait of a Woman 61
- Poetry is Waiting for Me in the Other Room 62
- The Mockingbird 64
- Channeling Garcia Lorca in Van Horn, Texas 65
- Talking to my Wife Who is Away at Church 68
- A Campbell's Tomato Soup Autobiography 70
- The End of Toilet Paper 72
- A Short Documentary about a Dead Poet 74
- A Variation on a Theme by James Schuyler 75
- 1955 76
- Sunday Morning 78
- Luis, God and the One-Eyed Crow (See rewrite) 80
- McDonald's™ 82
- Imperialism in the 21st Century: The Bush Years 84
- The Lessons of my Mother 85
- The Lessons of my Father 87
- Where is that Beetle Going? 91
- I Make a Good Pot of Beans 92
- Please... 94
- A Sonnet for Love 96
- Message to Grandkids 97
- Four New York City Poems 98
- Houseflies 105
- Dear Harvey 106
- Lying in Bed after Love-Making 109
- Summertime Wishbone 110
- Valentine's Day 2011 112
- This Morning I Made Love with the Lettuce Picker 113
- Memo #34 114
- Please Wait 115.
- ISBN:
- 9781935955757
- 1935955756
- OCLC:
- 861335332
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