Clues from the animal kingdom : poems / by Christopher Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Christopher, 1955- author.

Series:

American poets continuum series ; Number 167.

American poets continuum series ; Number 167

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prose poems, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, New York : BOA Editions, Ltd., [2018]

Summary:

The harrowing descent of a seasoned poet's "dark night of the soul" through depression and suicidal ideation, searching for redemption.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Confusing Myself with the Whippoorwill

Waves and Particles

Coaxing the Dog Inside

An Old-Fashioned Comedy

Between Heaven and Hell

A Better Theater Than My Skull

Five Fictions

Scuola Metafisica

Recidivist Rex

Postulate

Mantras

Folk Tale

Like Sailboats on TV

Midnight Sundial

How I Learned to Play Guitar

Family Tree

Temporal Location Finder

The Black Boot, the River, the Burning House

Radiant Fish

The Double Sedative

Small Hope Factory

The Seeded Light

Basement Tapes

The Captain of No Team That I Know of

A Green Ocean Somewhere Far Away

I Have Approximated Lightning

Like IHOP at 3 A.M., I Radiate

City of Shells

Factotum

Orient

Speculation About the Future

Big Money for Broken Gold

Like Any Other Planet

Like Galileo

The Grand Kinetic Neon Macabre

Some Other Species of Love

My Strategy

Reading Celan on Labor Day

Cow Hill, Bull Hill

Death Metal Sunset

Mourning, Not Rending

Above the Ashes

Like a Dog Barking at a Statue of the Virgin Mary

The Natural World

Like a Werewolf on the Moon

The Ghost

Aegis in Absentia

The Beautiful Zoo Where No One Says I Love You

These Thoughts of Existence

Halloween

The Chaos Each Night Brings

Chrysalis

Sustainability

Searching for Terry Melcher

There Is a Word I Keep Forgetting

Algorithm

North Island

Graveyard, Root, and Forest

Clues from the Animal Kingdom

Monstrous

Zen Portraiture

At Brooklyn Pickle

Martial

Sinkhole in Knife Town

Orange Sunshine

Quarantine

In the Realm of Minor Keys

Triptych: Analogy of Faith

Against Surrealism

Causality

My Face Is a Stranger to the Mirror of God

Autobiography of an Excised Heart

Historical.

At Least Our Ruins Will Be Spectacular

Time Travel

Drift and Sway

The Hidden Wishes of the Night

Visit to a Random Orchard

This Pharaoh of I

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Colophon.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-942683-65-0

OCLC:

1031409572