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Title

Routine disruptions : selected poems & lyrics 1960-1998 / Kenward Elmslie ; edited by W.C. Bamberger.

Author

Elmslie, Kenward.

Publication

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Available to the trade through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bamberger, W. C.

Description

256 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"These new and selected poems gather together an often comedic cornucopia of Elmslie's work: autobiography, visually-shaped performance pieces, and confessional love poetry. Routine Disruptions includes lyrics from Elmslie's musical plays and opera librettos, along with his innovative poem songs. Elmslie offers his readers multi-voiced reportage of outer actualities, constantly challenged by the singularity of his poet's mind's eye."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• Trek Aids: An Introduction -- Circus Nerves & Worries -- Communique for Orpheus -- City of My Dinge World, Venice -- Ancestor Worship -- Fringe People -- Halloween Loop -- Nov 25 -- Awake on March 27th -- First Frost -- White Attic -- Four Scenarios -- Aztec Dinner Dance -- Revolutionary Letter -- Breech Baby -- Paper Suns -- Air -- Bio -- Eggs -- Sin in the Hinterlands -- Bang-Bang Tango -- Sneaky Pete -- And I Was There -- Adele The Vaudeville Martinet -- Meat -- Girl Machine -- Fruit -- The Dustbowl -- History of France -- Shirley Temple Surrounded by Lions -- The Power Plant Sestina -- Japanese City -- Jan 24 -- Feathered Dancers -- Fig Mill -- Motor Disturbance -- Routine Disruption -- Middle Class Fantasies -- Winter Life -- Visual Radios -- Time Lags -- Coda -- Tropicalism -- Lie With Me, Sweet John -- They -- Brazil -- One Night Stand -- Marry With Me -- Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain -- Andrei's Lament -- Beauty Secrets --
• Easter Poem for Joe '79 -- Squatter in the Foreground -- Black Froth -- Monster Worship I -- Monster Worship II -- Communications Equipment -- August -- In The Sky -- One Hundred I Remembers -- Four Vermont Haikus -- Nov 17 -- Pullmanette -- Rug Boast -- Kitchen -- Mindless Bliss -- The Thirties -- The Sixties -- Schlock 'n' Sleaze R&B -- Seventeen Years of Living Hell -- Moments in Time -- Take Me Away, Roy Rogers -- It's A Good Life -- Lads -- Somdomite -- A Secret Sacred Niche -- Love Song -- Champ Dust -- Bare Bones -- Animals in the Walls -- Spring in Argentina -- Local Branch -- Jakarta Night Arrival -- Sunday in Dunedin -- Welcome Home -- Rummage Sale -- Panopticon for Calamity Winifred -- Outback Taunt -- Forty Sonnet -- Fiscal Nonsense -- Happy Re-Return.

ISBN

1566890772 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98021157

OCLC

• 38976273
• ocm38976273

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries