Shake / Joshua Beckman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Beckman, Joshua, 1971-

Contributor:

• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : Wave Books ; St. Paul, Minn. : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, [2006]

Summary:

"The poems in Shake come to us directly and intimately. Generous, fervent, full of fear and persistence, they resonate with the wildness and generosity of Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan and Whitman, turning the everyday into an encompassing, harrowing, humorous, and necessary vision."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

• Unslide the door
• In the days of famous want
• Everything's quiet
• Death lasts
• I saw them all walk through
• Epic endangerment of the heart
• Raise the flag of sexual pretense up
• Beautiful rounded earth
• Headlights in daylight
• The swans were swimming in a pool in the park
• Final poem for the gently sifting public begins on the streets
• A rake in the garden : the garden
• In the blue pond a flame : I'm sorry
• The canals : the liquor coming through
• That's the worst way : the thin tree : the
• There upon your utter pale and lovely future
• The dead girl by the beautiful Bartlett
• Desperate bastards breaking bottles
• Really : the laughing at children : the dallying.

Other Format:

Online version: Beckman, Joshua, 1971- Shake.

ISBN:

• 1933517042
• 9781933517049
• 193351700X
• 9781933517001

OCLC:

61295894