Research Catalog

Title

Pallbearers envying the one who rides / Stephen Dobyns.

Author

Dobyns, Stephen, 1941-

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

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Details

Description

ix, 149 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• "In Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides, Stephen Dobyns's tenth book of poetry, we see the world through the melancholic eyes of Heart - blood-pumping organ, lover, poet, and skeptical philosopher of the everyday. Dividing the Heart poems is the long "Oh, Immobility, Death's Vast Associate," a jazzy disquisition on human isolation and inaction in the midst of a planet full of people brooding over similar concerns.
• With the characteristic black humor, maniacal imagination, and straightforward language that rollercoasters in tone and is mythic in its preoccupations, Stephen Dobyns has written a cycle of medieval morality poems for a new dark age."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Penguin poets

Uniform Title

Penguin poets.

Contents

• Good Deeds -- The Himalayas Within Him -- Old What's-His-Name -- Like a Revolving Door -- Facing Failure -- Goodbye To The Hands That Have Touched Him -- The New Austerity -- Ready And Waiting -- The Nature Of Love -- Valentine Mathematics -- Love Is Elsewhere -- Black Stitches Down The Middle -- Trouble In Mind -- Why Fool Around? -- What Good Is Love Unless It's Aggressive? -- The Dark And Turbulent Sea -- Fighting Back -- Great Job -- One Good Turn Deserves Another -- What Next? -- Can Poetry Matter? -- Flawed Language: Thought's Shadow -- Lumberjack Shirts And Motorcycle Boots -- I'm Muscle, I'm Brawn -- Adrift In The Leafy Tranquillity -- To Conceal The Piercing Light -- Occupant In Permanent Transit -- To Sleep The Sleep Of The Just -- Wounds Without Pain -- Thus He Endured -- Oh, Immobility, Death's Vast Associate -- No Tangos Tonight -- The Malditos Make A Racket -- To Exist In The Given Minute -- Logo Of Fixed Bewilderment -- The World's Master Plan --
• To Blow Your Enemy A Final Kiss -- Corn To Pound To Make His Bread -- Scattered Oaks In Full Leaf -- The Light Is Dusky, The Shadows Long -- Let's Peek At The Dental Work -- Between Them Rose The Boner Of Contention -- God's Poorer Particle, i.e., The Devil -- That Stuff About A Better Place -- The Sorry Fronds Of The Palm Trees -- His Favorite Blue Cup -- Why Is He Suddenly Paralyzed? -- It's Not The Hookers Or Opium Dens -- The Ersatz Metaphysic Of Commercialism -- Dog-Tired Cannon Fodder Won't Salute -- Until We Drool And Piss Ourselves -- Hunting Dogs Pursue The Wounded Deer -- The Minute Grit In Death's Undergarments -- MacFleckna's Storefront Church -- Their Tete-A-Tete Is Done -- Death Lobs A Bosom Into The Field -- Daytona Fresh And Indianapolis Immaculate -- When Tubes Pierce Every Extremity -- The Morgue Attendants Clutch Their Keys -- Last Jumping Jacks -- The World's Sidewalks And Daily Hoopla.

ISBN

0140589163

LCCN

99018492

OCLC

ocm40783907

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries