Research Catalog

Title

A flame for the touch that matters : poems / Michael Lassell.

Author

Lassell, Michael, 1947-

Publication

New York : Painted Leaf Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

113 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Contents

• Kissing Ramon -- At home -- Blond mendacity -- Uptown local -- Stroke of midnight -- Bathhouse/Burma/Winston -- Dancer(s) with Dick(s) -- Personal foibles #2 -- That boy on the pier -- Scab's lament -- Hospitality -- Scab's TV Guide -- In The Teeth's old Dodge -- Tongues' vocabulary lesson -- The Teeth's anger -- Patchwork Tongues -- Why Scab hates his teeth -- Why Scab is drowning -- Tongues pays Scab a midnight visit -- Baseball -- How to go to the art museum -- Mrs. Edward L. Davis and Her Son -- Man Wearing Laurels -- The Indian Hunter -- His Asian lover -- Ben and me on Labor Day -- How to spend a holiday alone -- Sycamore Avenue -- Leaving L.A. -- Indiana Gary -- Dressing for work -- At the memorial service for Richard Royal -- Krider at the La Te Da -- He lost his lover three times -- Important things -- Sunset Stripping: Visiting L.A. -- Casa de Colombo -- Portuguese gypsies in the Plaza de Espana -- Self-portrait at the Musee d'Orsay --
• End of summer/M. Duras -- Agua de los angeles -- Desire for breakfast -- At the Atlantic Shores -- Oahu -- In flight -- A.K. -- There aren't enough poems about fucking -- Two poems for Matt -- I want to fuck a boy -- I want to fuck a boy (2) -- I want my dick sucked -- If you could speak -- Interrogation -- Three Poems: For Anthony -- Three Poems: Photo -- Three Poems: Ramon -- May Day in the sculpture garden -- Only connect (God's in the details) -- Love/sonnet -- Love/sonnet II -- Body of work -- The wide, wide world -- Three poems: On this rock -- Three poems: Like Cavafy -- Three poems: Athens, Thanksgiving 1996 -- End of summer: Christopher Street Pier -- Love and Snow.

ISBN

0965155897

LCCN

97041686

OCLC

37693864

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries