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The floating bridge : prose poems / David Shumate.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shumate, David, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prose poems, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (84 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. We take the night bus to Gomorrah to have a look around. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Our world shifts. The commonplace begins to glow. We turn the page. Another bridge awaits.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Far Villages
- Manniquins
- Kafka
- The Next Village
- Big Brother Loses His Virginity
- Fresh Fish
- Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
- Don Quixote
- Metaphors
- Translating a Poem
- The Overwhelming Sadness of the Earth
- Plum
- Wisdom
- The Orange Flags of Babylon
- Learning to Eat a Pomegranate
- The Yellow Bird
- Picasso
- The Headless Saints
- The Amateur Zen Master
- Trapped Inside of a Haiku Poem
- The Island of Nirvana
- Rain
- The Dreams of Children
- Trains
- The Long Road
- The Bible Belt
- The Gods
- The Ladders of Purgatory
- Drawing Jesus
- Jesus's IQ
- Seduction
- The Jewish Ghetto
- Boarding the Bus to Gomorrah
- Om
- Zero
- Halo
- The House of Death
- Paris
- The Bedouins of Paris
- Spring in Paris
- Lucifer
- The Kissing Institute
- Pornography
- French Forign Legion
- Gertrude Stein's Gardener
- Dying Park
- The Gates of Paris
- An American in Paris
- Paris, USA
- The Floating Bridge
- Making a Forest
- A Visit with Dali
- North Wind
- Children's Book Illustrations, Circa 1890
- Learning Italian Slowly
- A Poem I Wrote Thirty Years Ago
- Chinese Restaurant
- Welcome Home, Children
- The History of the Umbrella
- While I Sleep
- The Fish
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822990765
- 0822990768
- OCLC:
- 867791268
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