Verlag:
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool. Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if...
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Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
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keine Ausleihe von Bänden, nur Papierkopien werden versandt
Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool. Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if only he'd leaned his weight into the razor. An oblivious Coronado narrowly avoids an ambush on the American plains. Freud lecherously lifts the skirt of a Mexican housekeeper who has far too much work to be bothered by "a pillar of modern thought. Or just some dirty old man." In lesser hands such disparate elements might fly wildly out of control. But in David Shumate's understated, brilliant prose poems, they come together in miraculously vivid riffs. The narrator of the title poem rhapsodizes, "I wouldn't mind seeing another good flood before I die. It's been dry for decades. Next time I think I'll just let go and drift downstream and see where I end up." Shumate's deft and refreshing collection takes us to amazing places with its plainspoken meditations. Intro -- Contents -- Part I -- The Rain -- The Polka-Dot Shirt -- The Japanese Rooms -- How to Sit in a Café -- Prescription for Insomniacs -- What Hemingway Learned from Cézanne -- The Institute of Cool -- A Nazi in Retirement -- The Blue Period -- Lifesaving -- Part II -- Coronado Rises in the Stirrups -- All Seas Belong to Neruda -- Hitler's Barber -- Ferlinghetti's Ears -- Custer -- Three Kings -- With Fitzgerald along the Côte d'Azur -- Mornings with Freud -- The Psychic Geography of Atlantis -- III -- Household Buddhas -- A Saint for You -- The Shape of the Human Soul -- Infant -- Teaching a Child the Art of Confession -- The Machinery of the Soul -- Martyr -- The Wasted Day -- On Finding a Landscape I Painted as a Child -- The Buddha of Arithmetic -- IV -- Country Music -- Passing Through a Small Town -- Tornado -- The American Dream -- Bomb Shelter -- Shooting the Horse -- Tabloid Headlines -- Critic -- A Thousand Miles from Nowhere -- Reading to the Blind Man -- May I Interest You? -- Accordion Lessons -- The Id -- Testicles -- V -- Afternoon Nap -- Visitation -- Graveyard -- The Ambassador of the Dead -- The Art of Forgetting -- Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night -- The Slaves of My Ancestors -- Armor -- The Funeral of the Moon -- Warehouse -- Old Age -- Mushrooms -- High Water Mark -- The Immortal -- Acknowledgments.
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Contents; Part I; The Rain; The Polka-Dot Shirt; The Japanese Rooms; How to Sit in a Café; Prescription for Insomniacs; What Hemingway Learned from Cézanne; The Institute of Cool; A Nazi in Retirement; The Blue Period; Lifesaving; Part II; Coronado Rises in the Stirrups; All Seas Belong to Neruda; Hitler's Barber; Ferlinghetti's Ears; Custer; Three Kings; With Fitzgerald along the Côte d'Azur; Mornings with Freud; The Psychic Geography of Atlantis; III; Household Buddhas; A Saint for You; The Shape of the Human Soul; Infant; Teaching a Child the Art of Confession; The Machinery of the Soul
MartyrThe Wasted Day; On Finding a Landscape I Painted as a Child; The Buddha of Arithmetic; IV; Country Music; Passing Through a Small Town; Tornado; The American Dream; Bomb Shelter; Shooting the Horse; Tabloid Headlines; Critic; A Thousand Miles from Nowhere; Reading to the Blind Man; May I Interest You?; Accordion Lessons; The Id; Testicles; V; Afternoon Nap; Visitation; Graveyard; The Ambassador of the Dead; The Art of Forgetting; Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night; The Slaves of My Ancestors; Armor; The Funeral of the Moon; Warehouse; Old Age; Mushrooms; High Water Mark
Verlag:
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh PA
Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool. Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if...
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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool. Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if only he'd leaned his weight into the razor. An oblivious Coronado narrowly avoids an ambush on the American plains. Freud lecherously lifts the skirt of a Mexican housekeeper who has far too much work to be bothered by "a pillar of modern thought. Or just some dirty old man." In lesser hands such disparate elements might fly wildly out of control. But in David Shumate's understated, brilliant prose poems, they come together in miraculously vivid riffs. The narrator of the title poem rhapsodizes, "I wouldn't mind seeing another good flood before I die. It's been dry for decades. Next time I think I'll just let go and drift downstream and see where I end up." Shumate's deft and refreshing collection takes us to amazing places with its plainspoken meditations
