Funny, intelligent, playful, inventive and engaging collection that subverts the norms of identity, authorship and audience Cover -- Title Page -- Note to Reader -- Dedication -- Contents -- Self-Portrait with Reader -- American Self-Portrait I --...
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Funny, intelligent, playful, inventive and engaging collection that subverts the norms of identity, authorship and audience Cover -- Title Page -- Note to Reader -- Dedication -- Contents -- Self-Portrait with Reader -- American Self-Portrait I -- Apocryphal Self-Portrait -- Cartography -- or American Allegory I -- Frog Considers a Photograph by Andres Serrano Entitled Dissection -- Etiological Self-Portrait -- The Poem Chooses Its Own Adventure -- Self-Portrait with Obfuscation -- Self-Portrait with Contemplation -- Twenty Lines on Paul Kleeâs The Man in Love -- Poem of Prevarication to Begin the Second Section -- Poem in Which Readers Select Their Favorite Title -- Self-Portrait Bop -- American Self-Portrait II: Study of the Other Self -- Relational Self-Portrait -- Labor -- or American Allegory II -- Frog and Toad Confront BashÅ beneath the Wreckage of the Moon -- Autumnal Self-Portrait -- A Page of Spring -- Alternate Self-Portrait -- America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope -- Want -- or American Allegory III -- How We Survive: A Triptych -- American Self-Portrait III -- or What the Poet Thinks of Instead of War -- Not Long after Rich: A Study -- Frost on Fire -- Self-Portrait in Five Rooms -- Frog Considers Slipping Toad Pop Rocks⢠-- Becoming Klee, Becoming Color -- American Self-Portrait IV -- Self-Portrait in Absentia -- Self-Portrait in Time -- Unable to Look Away from the Portrait of My Grandfather atop His Casket, I Write a Poem about My Newborn Son on the Back of the Funeral Program -- Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando -- Democracy -- or Poem in Which Readers Select Their Favorite Last Line -- American Allegory IV -- or Still Life with Peter Norman -- âAmericaâs frogs and toads disappearing fastâ -- Still Life with Gratitude -- Forecast -- Poem for My Wife Composed Partially in the Manner of Chris and Desiree from The Bachelorette -- Poem for the World -- The Superpoem Is in Disguise -- Self-Portrait with Frog, Toad Self-Portrait at the End -- Self-Portrait in Space -- The Robot Washes Dishes on the Eve of the End of the World -- or American Allegory V -- Self-Portrait at Easter -- American Self-Portrait V -- Self-Portrait with Ghost, Rising -- Self-Portrait: Postmortem -- Paul Kleeâs Winter Journey at the Beginning of Spring -- About the Author -- or Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry -- Also by Dean Rader -- Self-Portrait with Acknowledgments -- Copyright
