Research Catalog

Title

Bob Holman's the collect call of the wild.

Author

Holman, Bob, 1948-

Publication

New York : H. Holt and Co., 1995.

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Details

Description

xvi, 158 pages; 18 cm

Summary

Bob Holman has a mission: To set poetry free, to empower the public with language - to make poetry as natural a use for language as ordering a pizza. As Bob says, "The universal remote control is being passed into your hands. Poetry is the Language of the Future."

Uniform Title

Collect call of the wild

Alternative Title

Collect call of the wild

Note

• "A John Macrae book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158).

Contents

• Tear To Open (This This This This This This) -- () -- Who Knows -- The Garage -- Sad Song -- Sailing Back Capital -- The Return -- Help -- After Ch'in Kuan -- So Far Away -- Previously Saving -- He Refuses to Enter the Marketplace Even to Buy Prestige -- Dreaming -- Rain -- Saying Goodby -- Is -- Here's an Example -- What It Is -- Long Hoe, Long Hoe with Your Raw Wooden Handle -- Up All Night -- Do City Morning -- Thinking of Li Po -- After Li Po -- Sung to the Tune of "The Weary Road" -- Center Field -- First Base -- Third Base -- Catcher -- Left Field -- Shortstop -- Luther Winslow, Second Base -- Pitcher -- Right Field -- Manager -- Cupid's Cashbox -- Cupid's Cashbox -- Poetry -- Elegant Study -- My Shirt -- The Paintings Were Interesting -- Fortune into a Bargain -- Awaiting the Return of the Drunk with a Broom -- Give Everyone a Drink Before We All End Up Like Bernard Shaw -- Ashbery --
• From the Jacket Blurb of a Minor Novel by a Well-Known and Respected 19th-Century French Novelist -- Balzac -- Gotta Get My I in Shape -- The Essence Not the Mode -- Greece -- Orgy in Unusual Company -- Last Year's Tight -- Goo Ahead -- The Collect Call of the Wild -- Beach Simplifies Horizon -- Panic*DJ! -- Hey, What'd I Say? -- SWEAT&SEX&POLITICS! -- Beside Myself -- Cowboy Heaven -- Cellular Phone -- Zooin' in Alphabet Town -- Recipe -- Where Do You Get Off? -- THE IMPOSSIBLE RAP -- Perfect -- Harmony -- Love -- The Proposal -- Night -- Required Reading -- Malvinas -- The Meaning of Meaning -- Usher -- Red-Tailed Hawk Feather -- Pasta Mon -- YOU CAN'T BE A JERK & WRITE GREAT POETRY -- I'd Rather Be Crazy Than Stupid -- Only One Love Song -- ROCK'N'ROLL MYTHOLOGY -- Veer -- Volume Dips and Variable Speeds: From Steve Cannon's Stoop to the Mithraic Podium -- Morocco Occo -- Not for Lack of Understanding -- Nonintention Is Possible -- Censor Not --
• Words When Bored -- The One-in-a-Million Kid -- Future Love -- A Quick Pound -- Etruscan Suns -- Several Sonnets Later -- The Italian Postal System -- A Visitation by John Belushi on the Isle of Capri -- Dreams: Roma -- Dreams: San Sepolcro -- Pay Per View -- There Is No Dog -- Rare and Beautiful Things at Half-Price -- The Ideal City -- No Dream -- Poem 3/2 -- Penis Envy in Saudi Arabia -- For the Birds -- Good to Hear from You -- Poetry Balance Balances Life off the Speakers -- The Irony of the Ecstasy -- Underdose o' Cafe -- La Petite Punaise dans le Bassinet -- Little Dipper -- The Tent Hath Grown -- Crow's Big as a Bog -- My TV Poem -- Birthday Morning, 1991 -- 30 Minutes -- Night House -- No Longer Killing Mosquitos -- A tiny flash, no thing reverses -- I Can't Believe It's Not a Poem! -- The Death of Poetry -- Missionary Epistle -- 1990 -- How to Wake Up -- One Way of Looking at a Blackbird -- 10 Things I Do Every Day -- DisClaimer --
• What You Can't Understand Is Poetry Is Connected to the Body Again -- Head of Kovacs -- A Poem for Neal Cassady, called simply,... -- 57 Gazillion Lung-Tongue Varieties -- Fire! (Friend or Foe?) -- The Point -- Deacon -- Creeley's Oral Tradition -- Creeley's Answering Machine -- Has There Ever Been Anything BUT Infotainment?! -- Talking with a Comet on the Last Day of the Year -- I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT A POEM! -- Let's Get Butt-Naked and Write Poetry -- We Are the Dinosaur -- Relationship -- Night Fears -- Love Poems.

ISBN

• 0805036741 (acid-free paper)
• 0805036725 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94024221

OCLC

• 31295063
• ocm31295063

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries