Nakedness, Death and the Number Zero: Poems By Brooks Haxton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haxton, Brooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of poems that confront nature, love, sex, and friendship.

Contents:

As Far As I Could Tell. Molybdenum

Catalpa

Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero

Now and Again

Memorizing "Lycidas" Under the Warhol at the Walker

Salesmanship, with Half a Dram of Tears

Consort

Song of the Rose

Professor of History

First Thing

Teenage Ikon

I Swore My Love on the Appointed Day

What If the Old Love Should Return. The Ghosts of Voices Bounced off Satellites and Swarmed Toward Earth

I Told My Wife

Nightjar

I Thought of Ovid Whining in His Exile, When You Said You Missed Me Now, Three Decades Since You Broke My Heart

Midnight, Showering in the Boys' Dorm, After We Had Laughed and Shushed

Spin

Your Favorite Job, You Told Me, Was Tree Surgeon for the City of Chicago

Falling Leaves Made Tinctures in the Early Snow

The Pilgrimage of Young Orpheus

Aubade of the Word Made Flesh

In Rhetoric, Adynaton Declares the Matter Inexpressible

In My Dream, After I Made You Cry

You Said You Liked It When You Heard the Trains

Tweeg

Dark Enough to See. Anonymous

Author's Bio

An Early Sense of the Requirements

All the Immortals Ever Think About Is Sex

Clearing After Dark

November Seasonal

Seasonal

Lethe

Dream Half Waking

On Re-Reading Hillman in the Light of Heraclitus

Ink

It Comes to Me: Concision!

Instructions for the Dead

Sanskrit by First Snowfall.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

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ISBN:

0-307-48856-X

1-299-14495-0

OCLC:

1155987932