Research Catalog

Title

Deathbed playboy : poems / by Philip Dacey.

Author

Dacey, Philip.

Publication

Cheney, Wash. : Eastern Washington University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

81 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Dacey here ranges widely in tones, strategies and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically meditates on American identity. In these poems, Dacey winds together many strands - our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality - and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent. Surprises in the book include cameo appearances by George Bush and Florence Nightingale as well as a take on J. S. Bach that owes something to the Keystone Cops.

Contents

Recorded Message -- Difficult Corners: 1. Introduction to "North Broadway & Grand" -- Difficult Corners: 2. North Broadway & Grand -- Eskimo Joe -- Reading While Driving -- For the God Poseidon -- The Neighbors -- The New American Stations of the Cross -- Four Men in a Car -- Mystery Football -- Coupon Love -- The Deathbed Playboy -- The Wheel -- Walt Whitman's Sunday With the Insane -- Harry Stafford: Whitman at Timber Creek -- The Burial -- Walt Whitman Falls Asleep Over Florence Nightingale's -- God Considers the Options for Human Procreation -- Teresa: 1. She Writes Offering to Buy for Her Son, in Minnesota, an Electric Blanket -- Teresa: 2. Crepuscule for Mother -- Why Jesus Was Crucified -- Portrait, With Lightning Rod -- Macaroons -- Shacking Up -- Study -- Trio: 1. The Musician -- Trio: 2. Bachspeed -- Trio: 3. Musica -- Romance -- Sol o Sombra -- Trousers -- Death and Television -- Chiaroscuro -- The Ice Cream Return.

ISBN

• 0910055475 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0910055483 (hc. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99019706

OCLC

ocm40777021

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries