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A little more red sun on the human : new and selected poems / Gillian Conoley.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.O5144 L58 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conoley, Gillian, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 325 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nightboat Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Conoley's selected poems assemble a shockingly varied body of work, comprising narrative, lyric, and fragmented forms. Her coruscating vibrant poems are informed by visual art and film, political engagement and playful linguistic constructions. Throughout, one can trace Conoley's obsessions and concerns: democracy, metaphysics, motherhood, gender and race, futurity and history."--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- I The Invention of Texas
- The Invention of Texas p. 3
- The Ancestors Speak p. 4
- Dare p. 5
- Woman Speaking Inside Film Noir p. 6
- Some Gangster Pain p. 7
- Suddenly the Graves p. 8
- Tonight I Feel Mortal p. 9
- Premature Reincarnation p. 10
- The Native p. 12
- The Birth of a Nation p. 14
- The Singer p. 16
- Tall Stranger p. 18
- The One p. 20
- Lee Harvey p. 22
- Frontier Days p. 25
- II Doubt Sets In
- My Sister's Hand in Mine p. 31
- Beckon p. 33
- Standing Still Like Walking, Walking Like Standing Still p. 35
- Doubt Sets In p. 37
- Lamentation for Martha Graham p. 39
- Dorothea Lange p. 41
- Heroes, Saints, and Neighbors p. 44
- Whose Nocturne p. 46
- All Girlhood Receding p. 48
- The Birth p. 50
- 3/3/91 4/29/92 p. 53
- After p. 55
- We Don't Have to Share a Fate p. 57
- Pale Sojourner p. 59
- III The Used World
- The World (It was just a gas station) p. 65
- Several Skylines p. 68
- Canon p. 70
- Turned Back p. 72
- The Sky Drank In p. 76
- The Violence p. 78
- How Do I p. 81
- The World p. 82
- The Splendor Fragments p. 84
- Childhood Home, a Panorama p. 92
- The First Three Minutes p. 95
- Lovers in the Used World p. 96
- Sapphic: I Said to My Instrument p. 99
- Love's Portfolio p. 101
- Beauty and the Beast p. 103
- Fuck the Millenium p. 105
- Flute Girl p. 107
- Socrates p. 109
- The World (Sweet nullity) p. 110
- Date Movie p. 111
- The World (Some are born) p. 114
- IV Fatherless Afternoon
- Profane Halo p. 119
- The River Replaces p. 123
- Tincture of Pine p. 126
- Sunday Morning p. 128
- Native p. 130
- New p. 133
- The Pox p. 135
- Lincolnesque p. 136
- This Land Is My Land p. 139
- A Little More Red Sun on the Human p. 142
- Fatherless Afternoon p. 144
- Painterly, Epigean, Dream's Hangover p. 149
- Birdman p. 152
- One p. 154
- The Garden p. 157
- My Elected Officials are Falling into Historical Moments p. 158
- Three Figures at the Gates of the Gully p. 159
- Burnt City p. 160
- Every Epoch p. 166
- It Was the Beginning of Joy and the End of Pain p. 168
- V More Lives
- Culte du moi p. 173
- Schools of Thought p. 174
- Romance p. 177
- My Name is the Girl with One Glass Eye Said Bitterly p. 178
- Brad And Angelina p. 182
- Frankenstein p. 186
- Shorn Polecat, the Helping Verb for Which One Must Keep One's Ear's Low p. 188
- Do We p. 190
- Tyger p. 191
- Hitchcock p. 193
- Sam Fuller p. 194
- Cassavettes p. 195
- Tenderness of the Dove p. 197
- Paradise p. 199
- No One Tells You Like It Is p. 201
- Sound of Freeways Directing the Cosmos Back to its Start p. 202
- VI Do You Believe
- An oh a sky a fabric an undertow p. 207
- Experiments in Patience I p. 214
- The Patient p. 216
- Experiments in Patience II p. 222
- My Mother Moved My Architect p. 223
- Experiments in Patience III p. 228
- Peace p. 230
- [Peace] smells of sweat deep p. 231
- [Peace] in argument context shivers the trigger words p. 232
- [Peace] contrary to history, to war's punctuations p. 233
- 4th p. 234
- [Peace] death is to be entered backwards p. 240
- Opened p. 241
- Late democracy p. 248
- [Peace] halftone of a couple in a four poster p. 250
- [Peace] if a no more one without the other p. 251
- Plath and Sexton p. 252
- Monday Morning p. 253
- Trying to Write a Poem About Gandhi p. 256
- Tenderness of the Dove p. 262
- Toughness of the Serpent p. 263
- A Healing for Little Walter p. 264
- A hatchet with which to chop at the frozen seas inside us p. 273
- VII Next
- Borderlands p. 277
- In the Next Next World p. 283
- Humans Done Standing along Abundant Endless Cross Streets p. 286
- Thank You for the Afterlight p. 290
- When Lie Goes Live p. 296
- The Long Marriage p. 299
- Preparing one's consciousness for the avatar p. 304.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781643620114
- 1643620118
- OCLC:
- 1089482781
- Publisher Number:
- 99983674541
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