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Title

Fever dreams : contemporary Arizona poetry / edited by Leilani Wright & James Cervantes ; foreword by Carolyn Forché.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wright, Leilani, 1951-
• Cervantes, James.
• Forché, Carolyn.

Description

xix, 231 pages : portraits; 25 cm

Subjects

• American poetry > Arizona
• Arizona > Poetry
• American poetry > 20th century

Contents

• Foreword / Carolyn Forche / William Aberg -- Devotions -- Reductions -- Bicycle Messenger -- The Fart -- My Real Mission -- Au Revoir -- Passing Through / Ai / Jed Allen -- The Fear of Algebra -- The Kiss -- Early Music / Barbara Anderson -- Sebastion / Jon Anderson -- It's Good To Be Alive -- The Effluvium -- Quentin Boyar's Grand Canyon Decision -- Timor Mortis Counterbat Me -- The Afterlife / Michael Bowden -- Shrine -- Keys -- Thickness -- Permanently North -- The Equation of Horses and Stars / Becky Byrkit -- Whoa -- First Kiss after Sleeping with Somebody Else: Braided Tongues -- Narrative Suite -- Epithalamion: Ramona and William / Cordelia Chavez Candelaria -- Swinger -- Killing the Tarantula -- Cool Potatoes for a Fevered Brow / James Cervantes -- Aztecs in the U.S. -- Learning to Love This Desk, Where . . . -- The New Language -- Black Water -- Spring Loaded / David Chorlton -- Children's Drawings -- Old Country -- Connections / Jeanne E. Clark --
• Tractors -- On the Day before Joe Spinner Was Made, There Was a Train Engine Out-of-Control / Jane Candia Coleman -- Cutting Calves -- Running -- Lost Lambs -- Buzzards -- The Great Plains -- Driving the Border / Michael Cuddihy -- A Light Switched On -- Into Each Life / Barbara Cully -- In an Open View -- Museum Frieze -- Nureyev -- Baby / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- from The Monarchs: 3, 22, 23, 25, and 34 / Norman Dubie -- Jeremiad -- New Age at Airport Mesa -- Coyote Creek -- A True Story of God -- Revelation, 20:11-15 / Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- Refugees -- My Bomb -- A Day Passes through the Medium of Identity -- Hound and Leper -- Multiple Adam / Catherine Hammond -- Alna the Night Nurse -- Bog Man / Rex Lee Jim -- Hey You, Come Here -- The Dancing Fire -- Boy Moth, Boy Moth -- An Acceptance of a Certain Death -- The Cry Continues -- A Grandmother's Memory -- Questioning, Questioning, Questioning / Ramson Lomatewama -- Song to the Breeze -- Barren --
• Swept Away Like Memories . . . / Rita Magdaleno -- Night Wake for Evangeline -- Looking for La Llorona in Box Canyon -- River Run / Jane Miller -- Early American -- Possession -- O Pioneers! -- Las Diamonds Are Una Chica's Best Amiga / Paul Morris -- Letter from Berlin -- The Wire Man / Sheila Murphy -- L -- The Simplest Features of a Droll Mood -- Dead Center Top of Eye Chart -- Paint in 2/4 Time / Rick Noguchi -- The Water Makes Him -- From Rootftops, Kenji Takezo Throws Himself Without Pretending to Be Shot -- October, Remembering the Ride No One Saw / Steve Orlen -- Mr. & Mrs. Death -- The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans (1900-1920) -- The True Nature of Coincidence / Henry Quintero -- Loggerhead Shrike / Alberto Rios -- Common Crows in a Winter Tree -- Domingo Limon -- A Simple Thing to Know / William Pitt Root -- The Celery Poem -- Writing Late through the Night of the Tiananmen Square Massacre / Jeannine Savard --
• The Rain in Five Places over Chino Valley -- Last Hopes -- Patience: The Man and the Woman -- Living Room with Hohokam Light -- Desert Renewal / Richard Shelton -- The Little Towns of West Texas -- Cruise -- La Sala de Espera -- Yes Miss Emily -- The Creep / Jim Simmerman -- The Paradise -- The Miracle -- The Apostle / Virginia Chase Sutton -- In the Fitting Room -- Dissipate -- The Hypnotist / Laura Tohe -- My Brother Shakes the Bottle -- Early Spring Morning -- Gathering the Voices -- Oil / Tracy Trefethen -- By Sea / Peter Wild -- Lovers -- Buffalo Wings -- African Daisies -- Bicycle Lake -- Great Art -- Whistle Blowers / Leilani Wright -- Flash Flood -- The Rorschach Moon -- Filing It Away -- Eating the Meteor / Brian Young -- Test Section -- Into the Previously Dying Wind / Ofelia Zepeda -- The Man Who Drowned in the Irrigation Ditch -- People on Wayward Journeys -- Waila Music.

ISBN

• 0816515883 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0816515891 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

96025305

OCLC

ocm34984168

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries