Its Ghostly Workshop: Poems

Contents

Contents I Edward Teller’s Leg 1 II | The Stinkdark Mr. Poe Calls on Mrs. Shelton 3 Edgar Poe Tries to Get His Act Together 4 Poe’s Last Words 6 The Southern Poet Is Pursued by Eliot 8 Ford, Joyce, Pound, Quinn 10 Pisa 11 Shithouse 13 DTC 14 The Fascist Salute 15 A Negroni for the Master 16 III Supermoon 19 IV | Created, Uncreated At First 21 Piazza G. G. Belli 22 The Caravaggio Room 23 Roman Sleep 25 Early Christianity: A Poem 26 Rome 29 Bentornato, 31 The Rewiring 33 Napoleon’s Naked Sister 35 A Wizard in the Forum 36 Via della Scala, Trastevere 38 Campidoglio 39 Palatine 40 Galleria Borghese, August 41 x Satiro e Ninfa 42 The Tomb of the Scipios 43 Via Appia, Beyond Ciampino 44 κάθαρσης 46 V Little Gidding 47 VI | A Different World Album 51 Come on In, Come on Along 52 Yankees 54 Splitting the Doubleteam 56 The Day Jerry Suna Came to Baseball Practice Drunk 57 Double 59 A Different World 61 Distraction 62 Anecdote of the Half-Rubber 63 A Leni Riefenstahl Triptych 64 Incarnation 66 Flashes 68 Perfect Hit 70 VII Its Ghostly Workshop 73 Acknowledgments 75 ...