Adult swim / Heather Hartley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartley, Heather, author.

Series:

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Carnegie Mellon poetry series.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

76 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"'Adult Swim' has a remarkably welcoming conversational voice. The headlong rush is intoxicating, and many poems veer off or abruptly end, though the party continues, having never left off, on the next page. Then suddenly, something stark, something beautiful or devastating stops you. Harley's range is exactly what you want from a book of poems- the range of a life." --Matthew Rohrer.

Contents:

Sleepless nights of marine life ; I. When all your friends are sea urchins

Breakfast

"Everything tastes better with bacon,"

Some benefits of chewing

Patrician pleasures

The haberdashery of the missing E

The baby with a top hat & cigar

Toward some leaning near the radio & those waves

To a friend in a strange city

If you can read this, ; II. Pool rules

At the king's party

This was where it was

On several desires & entreaties at once

Gingiva

Ode to my right tennis shoe in Montparnasse

Dear Vallejo,

Jules & moi

Lifting spoons ; III. I remember driftwood

What I liked best was the log flume &-

Fragments for a surgeon

This was Paris, France, and this then was now

Here, even the dogs smoke

Give me your hand

In the salon of Madame Miklós Radnóti

"I was a girl in Hungary"

On a one-way street in Debrecen ; IV. You, unusual among fish, live in no aquaria

Caffè Ristretto, with amnesia

Every time you leave, the basil plant dies

Nine lives in ten or eleven lines

The Vesuvius, envious,

Chaos is a verb here ; V. Who will provide me with a copious fountain

Toward that sweet nest where I remained, though parting

Ah, at least delay by an hour or two your going forth

I do no envy you, o holy angels

Those stars whose light has been so impressed

And just as you take solace

To course across more kindly waters now

While in my heart, I feel the sweetness of it yet

Syrenka.

ISBN:

088748607X

9780887486074

OCLC:

923649946