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How Chet Baker died : poems / Barry Gifford.
Van Pelt Library PS3557.I283 H683 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gifford, Barry, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The first words in Barry Gifford's new poetry collection say it all-"Here I am wasting time again / writing poems to keep myself company" - doing what he has ever done, surprising his readers in kaleidoscopic prisms of color, turning every breath into a story, and himself into his most colorful character. The mystery in these poems lives just beyond the province of words. In a strange way, Barry Gifford's poems tell a wordless story, freed of the writer's art. "It's dangerous to remember / so much, especially for a writer / The temptation to make sense / of it is always there / where you and I / are no longer." Daily life, family and friends, are much more important here than books. The beauty and elusiveness of women and music are of utmost importance, far more so than literature. As he attests: "I prefer music to poems, words don't live the same way-so, listen.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Blood Moon in February
- New York, 1960
- The Disappeared
- Big Words
- The Unconquered Flame
- Ciao, Paloma
- Ode to Jerry
- Mouth of the River
- Women and Death
- The Funeral
- Last Night's Dream
- Passing Acquaintance
- At Apollinaire's Grave, Pere-Lachaise
- At Ezra Pound's Grave, San Michele
- Passage on a Slow Freighter
- For Yosano Akiko, whose heart was like the sun
- Approaching the Forbidden City
- Catastrophe at the Grocery Store
- After Life
- Remember
- March 17
- Dada (III)
- The Color Red
- Lost Postcard
- Frank Jackson
- The Difference
- Edith Piaf Regrets Nothing
- With Dan at the Museum
- Camera Oscura
- Cela ne fait rien
- A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Natural Things
- My Books
- What Bobby D. Taught Me
- On Time
- No king in Israel
- Utah Street
- Reverdy
- Bad Blonde
- New Mexico, 1969
- Neruda
- The Cause
- Thy Own Hand Yields Thy Death's Instrument, Sez Ez
- The Chinese Pastoral Society
- What She Did Have
- Myth without Text
- Thanksgiving 2017
- 3-7-77
- Literature
- My Dream
- She Had A Beautiful Voice
- Rough Mix for Miles Okazaki
- Finding Favor in the Sight of the King
- Weekend
- Montana
- The Lion Dying Thrusteth Forth His Paw
- The Arm
- Le Denouement
- American Pastime
- Immortals
- The Most Dangerous Age
- Ambush
- Midnight Makes Its Move
- Turn Again and Tell the Captain
- How Chet Baker Died
- Forward and Back
- Beyond the Rivers of Ethiopia
- Special Collections
- Jim Harrison
- Great Expectations
- Colorado
- Isolation
- 4 A.M. Used to Be Night, Now it's Morning
- A Love Story for Nelson Algren
- Conchita
- Homage to Simonides
- At Giza
- Bologna
- Rinchu
- Mexican Waitress
- Mexican Haircut
- History Lesson
- Swans
- Sitting in the Sun Reading Chekhov
- Early October Remembering My Friend Toru Takemitsu
- When I Am Walking
- In a Past Life I Was Mistakenly a Poet.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781644211540
- 1644211548
- OCLC:
- 1269423883
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