In a prominent bar in Secaucus : new and selected poems, 1955-2007 / X. J. Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, X. J.

Series:

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Kennedy, X. J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kennedy has long occupied a unique place in American poetry; In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus now offers the first comprehensive collection to span his entire career.

Contents:

Contents; Nude Descending a Staircase (1961); First Confession; Solitary Confinement; On a Child Who Lived One Minute; Faces from a Bestiary; Nude Descending a Staircase; The Autumn in Norfolk Shipyard; Warning to Sculptors; Lewis Carroll; In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day; Barking Dog Blues; Inscriptions after Fact; Lilith; The Sirens; Narcissus Suitor; Theater of Dionysus; At the Stoplight by the Paupers' Graves; Little Elegy; Ladies Looking for Lice; B Negative; At the Ghostwriter's Deathbed; Rondel; One A.M. with Voices; Growing into Love (1969); Cross Ties; Poets

Nothing in Heaven Functions as It OughtCreation Morning; Traveler's Warnings; Main Road West; Edgar's Story; National Shrine; Peace and Plenty; Driving Cross-country; Reading Trip; Requiem in Hoboken; For a Maiden Lady; Pottery Class; Absentminded Bartender; Loose Woman; Ant Trap; West Somerville, Mass.; Day Seven; The Ascent; Golgotha; Ode; Two Apparitions; Artificer; Daughter in the House; The Shorter View; Giving in to You; Slim Volumes; Breaking and Entering (1971); Song: Great Chain of Being; Consumer's Report; The Atheist's Stigmata; In a Secret Field

Emily Dickinson in Southern California (1973)Mining Town; Schizophrenic Girl; Evening Tide; A Little Night Music; Celebrations After the Death of John Brennan (1974); Three Tenors, One Vehicle (1975); Talking Dust Bowl Blues; Song to the Tune of "Somebody Stole My Gal"; Cross Ties: Selected Poems (1985); In a Dry Season; A Footpath Near Gethsemane; Dirty English Potatoes; Goblet; Aunt Rectita's Good Friday; Hangover Mass; One-night Homecoming; October; Joshua; Old Men Pitching Horseshoes; To Dorothy on Her Exclusion from The Guinness Book of World Records; At the Last Rites for Two Hotrodders

Flitting FliesThe Death of Professor Backwards; At Brown Crane Pavilion; On the Proposed Seizure of Twelve Graves in a Colonial Cemetery; A Beardsley Moment; Dark Horses (1992); The Arm; Twelve Dead, Hundreds Homeless; The Waterbury Cross; Veterinarian; The Animals You Eat; Snug; Overnight Pass; Two from Guillaume Apollinaire; Pont Mirabeau; Churchbells; To the Writers Forbidden to Write; Terse Elegy for J. V. Cunningham; On Being Accused of Wit; Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World Now that Her Homestead in Amherst Has an Answering Machine; The Withdrawn Gift; On the Square; Dump

Summer ChildrenTableau Intime; Finis; Black Velvet Art; The Lords of Misrule (2002); ""The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"; Jimmy Harlow; Naomi Trimmer; Five-and-Dime, Late Thirties; Sailors with the Clap; For Allen Ginsberg; Thebes: In the Robber Village; Close Call; Street Moths; Décor; The Ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James; A Scandal in the Suburbs; To His Lover, That She Be Not Overdressed; The Blessing of the Bikes; Sharing the Score; A Curse on a Thief; Pie; Shriveled Meditation; Meditation in the Bedroom of General Francisco Franco

Maples in January

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9635-5

OCLC:

923194818