The night we're not sleeping in / Sean Bishop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Sean, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 65 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books, [2014]

Summary:

"The 2013 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry Selected by Susan Mitchell"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1

Adam Before the Advent of Psychiatry 7

A Bit of Forgiveness 8

Reading Dante in the ICU 10

Adam Explains His Implications 12

Adam Home from the Wars 14

Here's to Killing 15

Adam Relates the Last Days of Rome 17

Adam Explains the Origin 18

Red Shift 19

Adam Reports from the Distant Future 22

2

Black Hole Owners Association 25

Letter to Toss from the Airborne Plane 28

Secret Fellow Sufferers, [our fathers are liars.] 30

What I Asked For 31

Secret Fellow Sufferers, [once I believed if I wore my sadness] 33

On Believing the Night Has an End When the Night [...] 34

Secret Fellow Sufferers, [once more our old wounds] 36

Secret Fellow Sufferers, [have you been the unwinged thing] 37

At the Optometrist's I Almost Remember a Story [...] 38

Theory of Cruelty 40

Lake Bobby 41

3 To Throw the Little Bones that Speak

I [Jack of Hearts, Jack of the weakest ventricle] 45

II [Let's say the heebie-jeebies are a kind of flea] 46

III [My little hooked pickerels, just look] 47

IV [Edge of the bright earth] 48

V [The last-give or take-forever I've spent] 49

VI [Ladies and gents, if you look to your left] 50

VII [From a list of great evils I've chosen the best] 51

VIII [Karen you promised you'd come but didn't] 52

4

Secret Fellow Sufferers, [please join me in compiling] 55

Secret Fellow Sufferers, [some of us are cured] 56

Joe Cuomo, Local Weatherman, Tests the Old Idea of Heaven 57

About to Hope 59

Secret Fellow Sufferers, [I've come a long way] 60

Last Supper 61.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781936747931

1936747936

OCLC:

875240465