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- Kimonos in the Closet
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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“These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don’t know when I’ve enjoyed reading a book so much.”—David Budbill
Table of Contents
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- My Desk Sets Sail
- pp. 1-12
- The Art of the Moors
- pp. 2-13
- Chagall’s Blue Horse
- pp. 3-14
- Octopus Stuck Between My Teeth
- pp. 6-17
- Chumming Around with Hemingway
- pp. 8-19
- Kimonos in the Closet
- pp. 10-21
- Waking Up as a Buddhist
- pp. 13-24
- My Buddhist Lessons
- pp. 14-25
- Shakespeare in the Morning
- pp. 15-26
- Talking Animals
- pp. 16-27
- Bringing Things Back from the Woods
- pp. 17-28
- Animal Souls
- pp. 18-29
- The Immigrant’s First Day at School
- pp. 19-30
- The Races of Man
- pp. 20-31
- The Old Teacher
- pp. 21-32
- The Man Who Made the Minotaur Up
- pp. 23-34
- Those Days in Eden
- pp. 24-35
- If You Hire a Poet to Draw a Map
- pp. 25-36
- In the Company of Bedouins
- pp. 27-38
- 28A Thousand Steeples
- pp. 28-39
- Rural Aria
- pp. 33-44
- Hummingbirds
- pp. 35-46
- The Lost Arts
- pp. 37-48
- Rain Dance
- pp. 38-49
- Republic of Umbrellas
- pp. 39-50
- Taking the Psychological Test
- pp. 40-51
- When a Fool Reaches Maturity
- pp. 41-52
- A Good Idea
- pp. 42-53
- 45In the Abstract
- pp. 45-56
- The Acres of the Moon
- pp. 46-57
- An Inventory of Moons
- pp. 47-58
- How to Speak to the Senile
- pp. 48-59
- Between Dogs
- pp. 49-60
- The Tang Dynasty
- pp. 50-61
- Moving Away from Home
- pp. 51-62
- 53The Executioner
- pp. 53-64
- After My Beheading
- pp. 54-65
- All the Dead
- pp. 55-66
- Getting Outfitted for a Casket
- pp. 56-67
- The Last Nazi
- pp. 59-70
- A Hundred Years from Now
- pp. 60-61
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 62-73
- Back Cover
- p. 74
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822979166
Related ISBN(s)
9780822962649
MARC Record
OCLC
867739509
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2013-12-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
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