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Climbing Back: Poems.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Martínez, Dionisio D.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Poets, Cuban.; American poetry--20th century.; American poetry.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource
Place of Publication:: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
Summary:: "Heartbreaking, overstuffed, seeping with history, lonelier than imaginable and truly in-the-face of American culture, Climbing Back's debris-field of prose poems tries with all its heart to outrun cultural paradigms and ends up refining our spiritual ignorance till it's our most gorgeous attribute". -- from Jorie Graham's citation for the National Poetry Series.
Contents:: Preface / Jorie Graham; Intro: The Prodigal Son jumps bail; The Prodigal Son and the two Sinatras; The Prodigal Son on Green Dolphin Street; The Prodigal Son: The treadmill effect; The Prodigal Son: German postcards; The Prodigal Son: Kierkegaard at face value; The Prodigal Son reassesses Kierkegaard; The Prodigal Son edits a newsreel; The Prodigal Son watches a documentary; The Prodigal Son, Mr. DeMille, Norma Desmond, Billy Wilder, Claude Monet, et al; The Prodigal Son paraphrases a plagiarist; The Prodigal Son gives blood; The Prodigal Son in a frenzy of scarves; The Prodigal Son confronting Zeno's paradoxes; The Prodigal Son introduces George W.G. Ferris; The Prodigal Son: Still life in slow motion; The Prodigal Son deconstructs the origami language; The Prodigal Son, for whom summer is a verb; The Prodigal Son pulls an all-nighter; The Prodigal Son is caught off guard by planned obsolescence; The Prodigal Son, accompanied by the ideogram; The Prodigal Son as understudy; The Prodigal Son locates the epicenter; The Prodigal Son: Notes from the epicenter; The Prodigal Son paces the other half of a semicircle; The Prodigal Son: Temporary trains; The Prodigal Son bribes the fortune teller; The Prodigal Son: Standard deviations; The Prodigal Son marks his calendar; The Prodigal Son swims to a barrier island; The Prodigal Son learns to drown; The Prodigal Son envisions nothing; The Prodigal Son succumbs to secular miracles; The Prodigal Son investigates the Hemingway suicides; The Prodigal Son in absentia; Credo (1); Bees; Tipping over the actuarial tables; Homage to Li Po; Rhetorical answers; Credo (2); Independence; Captivity; Free will; Fate; Faith; Credo (3); Benedictus; Prayer against Ecclesiastes; Letter to the anarchists; Debussy; Credo (4); The Prodigal Son's education; The Prodigal Son forgives his brother; The Prodigal Son on a bus in New Delhi; The Prodigal Son buries a dog named Pavlov; The Prodigal Son takes up a hobby; The Prodigal Son: Studies for a portrait of John Merrick; The Prodigal Son is spotted on the grassy knoll; The Prodigal Son, briefly suspected in the shooting of Andy Warhol, is cleared of all charges; The Prodigal Son stands outside the Dakota; The Prodigal Son as decoy; The Prodigal Son: Science fiction; The Prodigal Son in spite of himself; The Prodigal Son loses his wife; The Prodigal Son buys a new car; The Prodigal Son: Vegas, after hours; The Prodigal Son and the epistemology of chance; The Prodigal Son in Pompeii; The Prodigal Son: Amnesty; The Prodigal Son accidentally kneels while learning to crawl; The Prodigal Son considers a diplomatic career; The Prodigal Son learns the word "antebellum"; The Prodigal Son overhears his interrogators; Coda: The Prodigal Son catches up with the bounty hunters.
Notes:: Preliminaries omitted.

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