In this Book
- Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.
Angela Ball’s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.
Table of Contents
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- A Convention of Offenses
- pp. 1-2
- My Days at Sea
- pp. 3-4
- Our Tigers
- p. 5
- New Country
- p. 7
- Rimbaud’s Ears
- p. 10
- Closet of Desserts
- p. 14
- True Story
- p. 17
- How Things Work
- p. 19
- Color Film
- p. 20
- To Percy Bysshe Shelley
- pp. 28-29
- Disabled Power Steering
- pp. 30-31
- Inadequacy
- p. 32
- The Candidates
- pp. 37-38
- Nurse Kiki on WCW
- pp. 42-43
- Bob’s Our Uncle
- p. 45
- Our Lodger
- p. 50
- That Was Me
- p. 53
- Difficult Daughters
- p. 54
- For Larry Rivers
- p. 60
- My Background
- p. 62
- My Audition
- p. 63
- Phoning Frank O’Hara
- p. 65
- Provisions
- pp. 67-68
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 71-72
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990819
Related ISBN(s)
9780822959755
MARC Record
OCLC
835768508
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No