Research Catalog

Title

When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double : Poems / by Diane DeCillis.

Author

Decillis, Diane,

Publication

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

ix, 100 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Made in Michigan writers series

Uniform Title

Made in Michigan writers series.

Subjects

• Poetry
• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: I -- The Philosophical Nature of Peeps -- An Unkindness of Ravens -- When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double -- My Drowned Lover's Soul Inhabits My Dog -- Close -- Refugee -- You Say the Kitchen Is Your Country -- Figaro Speaks -- Palm Reading Detroit -- The Fist on Jefferson Avenue Meets Isaac Newton -- My Mother Cuts Me Open and Finds an Apple Inside -- Anatomy Lessons -- Planetary Biology at Beaumont Hospital -- Anesthesia Awareness -- Ya'aburnee -- Excuses for Not Falling in Love -- My Eyes Find the Face of the Person I Love and Pull Out Their Fork and Knife -- Neruda in My Kitchen -- The Strange Fate of Falling into a Black Hole -- II -- In the Garden of the Universe -- I Feel Like I Sprained My Damn Heart" -- Extirpation -- Heartbreak Number One -- Tatterdemalion -- Snow Falls Off Bare Branch -- The Artof Kintsugi -- What Saves Her -- The Girl from Ipanema Visits Detroit, 1964 -- Instructions for the Aspiring Rock Star, Circa 1894 -- Wild Spirit -- Pareidolia Speaks -- Electric Metamorphosis -- Three Stages of Abandonment -- Open Heart Surgery -- Saudade -- A Taste for Duende -- Guilt Masquerades as Pleasure at the Venetian Ball of Sweets -- Sex, Guilt, and Counter Espionage, Sinatra Style -- Solving for X -- My Grandfather My Madame X -- My Colosseum -- Military Secrets -- Dream Where I Find My Roof -- Another Dream About Not Having Children -- La Familia -- III -- The Cinematic Nature of Nightmares -- Swamped -- How to Make Horror Films -- Dementia Walks into a Bar -- Art Critic Robert Hughes Finally Writes About Goya -- The Man Who Lost His Words -- In the Company of Sufferers -- All Day I've Been Trying to Convince Myself -- Ass -- Pulp Sugar in the Voice of Captain Friday -- Opera Buffa -- Bone Bone Frisson -- Man and Flambe -- The Home Shopping Network Waxes Poetic -- Pimping the Faltering No -- Decathect -- Self-Portrait as Autopsy -- Crush -- The Gift -- Agnostic -- How Much Freedom Do You Give the Fly You Caught for a Pet? -- Doubling the Entendre.

Call Number

JFE 21-6082

ISBN

• 0814348327
• 9780814348321

OCLC

1200197970

Author

Decillis, Diane, author.

Title

When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double : Poems / by Diane DeCillis.

Publisher

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Made in Michigan writers series

Made in Michigan writers series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6082