How Many Faces Do You Have? / Mike Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Mike, 1946- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intimacy (Psychology)--Poetry.

Intimacy (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2017]

Summary:

How Many Faces Do You Have? is a poem sequence that interrogates intimacy, each poem a face the poet discovers, a reflection revealed in response to inner questioning. In a voice of quiet sonority, these lyrics journey from a high-school gym dance to a moonlit beach polka. They linger over sushi in Montreal and an airline meal at 40,000 feet on a flight. They touch joy and pain and celebrate the vicissitudes of love that goes "into the tangled heartland / where there is no trail," as a gift of being. A face is such a strange thing. Obsessed with distortion, Modigliani loved elongated faces like Tamara's at a distance, a flattened oval, two black jewels. He painted with a dagger in his teeth, they say, to see the face within the face -- grave, cold-eyed as Nefertiti, Queen of Egypt, whom I've always loved for her name alone.

Contents:

About time

Skin

Mae West as an apartment

Flight to Yucatan

Song of the old shoes

Rainy November again

Hound dog blues

Sauna prana

How many faces do you have?

Fou d'Asie, Montreal

I want you

Love me like the first word

Buenos Aires

Patches

Warning label

Archibald katydid

One day as Jeni went on

Undercover

He dreams a woman who's a ship

The trouble with love

The way your fingers

River under ice

Moonlight polka.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781680031348

1680031341

OCLC:

974912965