The Thomas Salto / Timmy Straw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Straw, Timmy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

105 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Portland, OR : Fonograf Editions, [2023]

Summary:

"The Thomas Salto takes its name from a difficult and dangerous move in gymnastics, a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War. Both in its Reagan-grained historicity, and in the human body that bears the leap's flight and risk, the Thomas salto is a kinetic figure for these poems' action in time and space. They shadow the AIDS epidemic, the war on drugs, the US proxy wars in Central America, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, the Soviet collapse--not as history but as the camouflage-pattern of "then" and "to come" which form the flickering and very real habitus of the present."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

About the salto

Palm and fountain. Tromp l'oeil

That too is stealing

Catching the train to town

Take the sonata form

Looking west out of Wilson Elementary during a Friday D.A.R.E. presentation

The bridle

'Address to the nation on the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, January 28, 1986'

Brezhnev

Lake Union, looking over

Little song in the Locrian

The astronomer's hands

The guildmouse

Stealth. The ax

The Thomas salto

Attica!

Cascade Locks sturgeon hatchery field trip

From 'Address to the nation on the situation in Nicaragua, March 16, 1986'

The bear

Florida dolor

Camo

Oracle at dog

Mummery (1988)

Three gold bowls

David sings for Saul

I've been in barns

'Not the soul but today's affairs'

Tremolo

Entgötterung

Scantron. If a house

Copernicus

Puget sound

Child ballad

The beauty of synchronic rule

From 'State of the Union address, January 26, 1982'

Palm and fountain in the Providence Medical Center waiting room

Shore leave

Your father's kingdom is like a woman

The pinwheels of Goshen

Seven crosswords for private life

Gibbon. Trout quartet

In the early days of film

No persons to hear it

Visiting a friend

Cloud castle lake

Gibbon

Oblige, world

The gull

The good life

From 'Address to the nation on the Iran Arms Affair, March 5, 1987' and 'Address to the nation on the Iran Arms and Contra Aid Controversy and administration goals, August 12, 1987'

Civic might

Selah, say

Take the sonata form.

Notes:

Poems.

"FONO26"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780578358543

0578358549

OCLC:

1401987334

Publisher Number:

90100727707