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The inspiration cha-cha

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Description

104 pages; 20 cm

Summary

A child is born with the ears of a rabbit. A serial killer's home becomes a tourist attraction. A hot-dog vendor awaits the Pope at Paralysis Beach. The Inspiration Cha-Cha is the first major collection of poetry by a longtime veteran of Toronto's literary underground. The surreal world of Stuart Ross is populated by psychic surfers, Shakespearian apes, vengeful dogs, and conspiratorial potatoes - all depicted in the language of overheard conversation.
The Inspiration Cha-Cha is uproariously bleak, deceptively simple...and thoroughly danceable.

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Contents

I Have Something to Tell You -- More People are Killed in Car Accidents -- Around the Building -- What He Thought When He Thought -- Little Black Train -- Three Scoops Waffle Cone -- Cookin' -- Clean -- For Montgomery Clift -- Friends in New Places -- The Stupid Poems -- The Potatoes are Crazy -- The Bus Driver -- City of My Dreams -- El Tipo -- Lost Expedition -- The Pod Poems -- Cottage Country -- Cold Exhaust -- Savage Gratitude -- MAS -- Stubborn Furniture -- Minor Altercation -- Nadie -- The Laundry Boy -- An Orgy in the Cabin -- Senor Cuerpo -- The Pay-Off -- 18 July 1959 -- Boxhead -- Bunnybaby: The Child with Magnificent Ears -- Adjustments -- On the Highway with a New Set of Teeth -- Slumberville -- "I Think You'll All Be Able to Relate to this Next Poem" -- An Underwater Adventure -- Gardening -- The Inspiration Cha-Cha -- Bundybaby -- The Clamour -- A New Sensation -- Plasma -- Things I Can't Quite Believe -- Poem --
Some Kind of Slowdown in the Intersection -- In the Night, On the Wall -- Oh Bleak Day -- Paralysis Beach -- Happy.

ISBN

1550222937 :

LCCN

cn 96990052

OCLC

ocm35977996

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries