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Never Be the Horse

By Beckian Fritz Goldberg

Publication Year: 1999

Never Be the Horse depicts the world of a postmodern Dark Dorothy whose attempts to return home are foiled when she falls into the Garden of Eden, into the underworld with Walt Whitman, into mysterious versions of her own childhood. The poems evoke this nighttime within the self haunted by mythic and shadow-paradises--of home, homeland, the original garden--where "every story is made to hide / the others." Here, Adam slips on a piece of Eve's clothing, a child falls in love with the bomb, and a mourner watching the whores chased from the cemetery laments. It is also a world of erotic disguises. Still, it remains recognizably this world. The parent lies to the child about death, and the child lies to the parent about death. In the journey between those lies, as in the journey taken by the horse of the title, language becomes the place of refuge. It is there that "one world is always beginning." From "willingness . . . speaking its motherese," to the devil's "gossamer gibber," the voices in these poems discover that to be human is, as Heidegger said, "to be a conversation."

Published by: The University of Akron Press

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pp. v-vi

Dedication

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pp. vii-

Part I

Refugees

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pp. 3-

Elegy

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pp. 4-

Multiple Adam

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pp. 5-

The Ventriloquist

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pp. 6-

My Bomb

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pp. 7-

Since I Have Lived

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pp. 8-9

A Day Passes through the Medium of Identity

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pp. 10-11

Hound and Leper

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pp. 12-13

I Have Set My Heart on the Sparrow

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pp. 14-15

Swallower

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pp. 16-17

The Book of Hens

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pp. 18-

The Painted Adam

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pp. 19-

Unmeasured Prelude

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pp. 20-

Once a Shoot of Heaven

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pp. 21-22

With a Ravenous Spike

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pp. 23-25

The First House Is Burning

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pp. 26-28

The Suitor

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pp. 29-

Part II

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pp. 31-

Never Be the Horse

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pp. 33-

I Have Lived Here All My Life

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pp. 34-

Amazon

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pp. 35-

Everything Where I Left It

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pp. 36-

The Betrayer

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pp. 37-

The Lying Childhood

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pp. 38-39

Sometimes White

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pp. 40-41

Whitman's Confession: In the Cleft of Eternity

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pp. 42-43

Money

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pp. 44-

The Weight

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pp. 45-46

Lucifer's Crown

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pp. 47-53

Retro Lullaby

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pp. 54-55

The Gulf

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pp. 56-

Flowering Adam

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pp. 57-58

TheTongue of the Sphinx

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pp. 59-60

Rebirth

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pp. 61-

Being Pharaoh

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pp. 62-65


E-ISBN-13: 9781935603931
E-ISBN-10: 1935603930
Print-ISBN-13: 9781884836541
Print-ISBN-10: 1884836542

Page Count: 65
Publication Year: 1999

Series Title: Akron Series in Poetry
Series Editor Byline: Elton Glaser, Editor

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