Noose and Hook

Lynn Emanuel

Publication Year: 2010

“I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet.”—David St. John

Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press

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Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication

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pp. i-v

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pp. vii-viii

My Life

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pp. 1-

Part One

Part Two. The Mongrelogues: Two Acts

Dramatis Personae

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pp. 21-

Stray Dog

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How Dogg Got Its Name

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Interior Mongrelogue

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Dogg House

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Tuff Times

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Hungree?

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pp. 27-

Dogg. Tired.

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Dogg of Warr

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Dogg’s Refusal

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Mad Dogg

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Abandoned Dogg

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Hang Dogg

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Who Iz Dogg?

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Whut i Wood Like To Bee If i Wuzn’t Whut i Am

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pp. 36-37

Part Three

Dream In Which I Meet Myself

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pp. 41-

Dear Diary, here in New York City

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pp. 42-

Hello, Mallarmé

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pp. 43-44

I tried to flatter myself into extinction

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While my mother lies in a hospital bed tethered to the

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pp. 46-

These days,

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pp. 47-48

Like that time in Paris

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pp. 49-50

told my student Kimber Lester

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pp. 51-52

April 18, the 21st Century

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pp. 53-55

Dedication

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Dear Final Journey

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pp. 57-58

Notes

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pp. 59-60

Acknowledgments

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pp. 61-62

The poems in this book were published in the following journals and periodicals, often in radically different versions and with different titles. I cite them here either by first lines or by title...

E-ISBN-13: 9780822990659
E-ISBN-10: 0822990652
Print-ISBN-13: 9780822960591
Print-ISBN-10: 0822960591

Page Count: 72
Publication Year: 2010

Series Title: Pitt Poetry Series
Series Editor Byline: Ed Ochester

Noose and Hook

Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication

Contents

My Life

Part One

Martinis, filets and cigarettes, tea sandwiches

The living teetered at the edge of a cliff

The Revolution

Into the clearing of . . .

Personal experiences are chains and balls

The Occupation

Homage to George Herriman

Metamorphosis