Research Catalog

Title

Last call : poems on alcoholism, addiction & deliverance / edited by Sarah Gorham & Jeffrey Skinner.

Publication

Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gorham, Sarah, 1954-
• Skinner, Jeffrey.

Description

xxii, 191 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Substance abuse > Poetry
• Substance abuse > Treatment > Poetry
• Alcoholism > Poetry
• Alcoholism > Treatment > Poetry
• American poetry > 20th century

Contents

• Joan Larkin -- Good-bye -- Genealogy -- Co-alcoholic -- How the Healing Takes Place / Thomas Lux -- Loudmouth Soup -- Amiel's Leg -- The Neighborhood of Make-Believe -- A Large Branch Splintered off a Tree in a Storm / Martha Rhodes -- All the Soups -- His -- For Her Children -- A Small Pain -- Who Knew -- Sweeping the Floor / Jane Mead -- On the Lawn at the Drug Rehab Center -- Fall -- The Memory -- Concerning That Prayer I Cannot Make / Jeffrey McDaniel -- Disasterology -- Friends and High Places -- Modern Day Sisyphus -- 1977 -- First Person Omniscient -- The Multiple Floor / Nancy Mitchell -- Love Story in Subtitles -- Runaway -- Incognito -- The Leaving / Marie Howe -- Recovery -- How Many Times -- The Mother -- The Promise -- The Dream / Tess Gallagher -- Even Now You Are Leaving -- 3 A.M. Kitchen: My Father Talking -- Coming Home -- On Your Own -- Kidnaper / Etheridge Knight -- Welcome Back, Mr. Knight: Love of My Life --
• Another Poem for Me (after Recovering from an O.D.) -- A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison -- Feeling Fucked Up / Cindy Goff -- Addiction -- I Feel Unattractive during Mating Season -- Drinking Beer with Sir -- Turning into an Oak Tree -- The First Sober Morning / Lynda Hull -- Adagio -- Visiting Hour -- Lost Fugue for Chet / Denis Johnson -- The Heavens -- The Honor -- The Words of a Toast / Cindy Day Roberts -- The Leopard -- Poor Zelda -- Enough -- Let Go of It / William Loran Smith -- The Family Man -- A Good Man's Fate -- Butchertown -- Sole of Dover / Michael Burkard -- Your Sister Life -- Woman in the Red House -- Sobert Ghost -- The Summer after Last -- How I Shaded the Book -- But Beautiful / Jean Valentine -- The Summer Was Not Long Enough -- American River Sky Alcohol Father -- Everyone Was Drunk -- The Drinker's Wife Writes Back -- Night Lake -- Forces -- Trust Me -- The River at Wolf / Raymond Carver -- Alcohol -- NyQuil --
• Drinking While Driving -- Luck -- The Old Days -- Gravy.

ISBN

0964115182 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

96007251

OCLC

ocm34319426

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries