Devils & Islands: Poems

Contents

Contents Fantasia on Dummy Keys 1 Before Clocks Were Digital 2 After the Fall 3 Amazonas.com 5 Erich Wolfgang Korngold 6 The Last Newsboy 8 Hitting the Silk 9 Bargains Are by Definition Faustian 10 Opposing Colonizations 12 Robinson Crusoe to Capt. Dreyfus 13 Energy Crises 14 A Course in Sax Education 16 Production Values 17 Gowns by Adrian 19 The Garden of Yellow Jack 20 The Devil and Daedalus 21 Fashions of 1903 22 The Last Cigarette Girl 24 Dance 26 Free Trade in Mitteleuropa 27 Where Is Gutzon Borglum Now That We Need Him? 28 vii You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Inventing the Subdivision 30 The Last Elevator Operator, or, Mr. Otis Regrets 31 Edith and Woody and Nancy and Ronnie 33 Fishers of Men 35 Unto Temptation 36 Guidelines for a Cover Illustration 38 Crystal But Not Crystal Ball 40 Models 41 The Last Chaperon 43 Update for Francis Joseph 44 The Passion of 1934 45 Administrating 47 One Third of a Triptych 48 Self-Guided Tour 49 Report of the Monuments Commission 51 Eclogue against Ecology 53 Soldiers Three in the Big Easy 54 Afterward 56 viii You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Devils & Islands You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...