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The first poetry collection in twenty-five years by the National Book Award-winning author observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and loss. Full description
Table of Contents:
- I: The coming storm
- In hemp-woven hammocks reading the Nation
- Exsanguination
- Little Albert, 1920
- Harlow's monkeys
- Obedience : 1962
- Loney
- The coming storm
- Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926
- II: The first room
- The first room
- Sinkholes
- That other
- The mercy
- The blessing
- This is not a poem
- Apocalypso
- III: American melancholy
- To Marlon Brando in Hell
- Too young to marry but not too young to die
- Doctor help me
- Old America has come home to die
- Jubilate : an homage in catterel verse
- Kite poem
- American sign language
- Hometown waiting for you
- IV: "This is the time ... "
- Hatefugue
- A dream of stopped-up drains
- Bloodline, elegy
- Harvesting skin
- "This is the time for which we have been waiting"
- The tunnel
- Palliative.