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Escape velocity / David Breskin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breskin, David.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- From the righteous indignation of welfare mothers to the cloying calm of West Coast Buddhists, Escape Velocity splices the personal and the political as seamlessly as life itself. Funny and ferocious, poems such as "Mosaic Wipe," "Due Process," and "Newsworthy" go fearlessly into darkened spaces to crack them wide apart. In this new collection of lyrically canny compositions, David Breskin courageously gathers up the fractured facets of American life and transforms them into a stunning, spinning mirrored ball of postmodern poesy.
- Contents:
- Prelude
- The Guitarist
- Jumping Over Your Shadow Slash Landscape With Squeege
- Growing
- Evidence
- Escape Velocity
- Welfare Reform
- Ugly Beauty
- Newsworthy
- Due Process
- Mosaic Wipe
- Just Asking
- State of Affairs of State
- Diplomatic Relations
- Broken Country Scramble
- Independence Day: Plaza de Armas, Cusco
- Revolutionary Politics
- Rated X
- Leh Over in Kashmir: Alchemy of Travel
- Freedom Of / Freedom To
- Hush-Harbor (The Old South)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1860-2004
- Pirates
- Spiel
- Edge City
- Transformations
- Today's Plane Crash
- Waffles
- Failures
- Well, You Needn't
- Capsized
- Her, For Instance
- The Jug Shop
- Waiting For the Light: 10:48 Saturday Night
- Angel Food
- Alcatraz
- Way Back in the Vanguard
- Void Where Prohibited
- Love Letters
- Decisions
- Sorry I Misunderstood You
- The Grandmother Poem
- Skylark
- Guilty
- Woman Trapped By Screaming Children
- X Packs a Day
- San Francisco To San Diego
- Invitation to Move West
- An Atmosphere of Isabel
- My Prosthetic Everest
- Belief Systems
- Counting
- Swimming Lesson
- Work
- Man, in the Middle of the Ocean, With Piano
- For Daisy, On Her 13th Birthday
- Proclivity
- Rhythm-A-Ning
- Literary Fiction
- Millennial Curve: A Torqued Ellipse or Three
- Industrial Facades
- Days
- Blank
- S, M, L, XL
- The Architecture of Implosion
- My Favorite Things
- Rusty Cage
- Package / Packaging
- If Books Were Like Paintings
- Relevancy
- Double Blind.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 193236045X
- 9781932360455
- 1932360441
- 9781932360448
- OCLC:
- 55678947
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