Research Catalog

Title

The broken world : poems, 1967-1998 / Len Gasparini.

Author

Gasparini, Len.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : Guernica ; Chicago : Independent Publishers Group [Distributor], 2005.

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Details

Description

250 pages; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Essential poets series ; 132

Uniform Title

Essential poets ; 132.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

The photograph of my grandfather reading Dante -- Union Station, Toronto -- Cold-water flat blues -- Self-portrait, 1967 -- Bela Lugosi -- The accident -- Kilroy -- In memory of the Empire Theatre -- Hart Crane -- Anniversary voyage -- Grapes -- Chinatown nocturne -- Tunnel bus to Detroit -- Kafka's other metamorphosis -- Pickup -- On being introduced to Irving Layton at a literary soiree -- Grandfather clock -- The houseplants -- Valentine -- Written on a paper napkin -- Subversion -- Soul poem -- Artist's model -- Nude on a motorcycle -- The eavesdropper -- Truckstop blues -- Solo -- I was a poet for the mafia -- Solitary confinement -- In memory of a nun -- The buffalo nickel -- In the ward -- Cocktail -- Greasy spoon blues -- The garret -- Hometown -- The mannequin -- At the Golden Dragon -- Epitaph for Emily Carr -- Trophies -- Pelee Island spring -- Pelee Island autumn -- Old lighthouse, Pelee Island -- Pumpkins -- Essex County pastoral -- Erie Beach -- At Raymond Knister's grave -- Weeds -- Field trip -- Detroit nocturne -- Raymond Souster's Toronto -- Junkball -- The escapist -- The book reviewer -- Knisteresque -- If love is heaven -- Son and stepson -- Adult entertainment -- Museum piece -- Alter ego -- High park -- Divorce court -- After the divorce -- The fatherless child -- Separated -- Adultery -- Leftover love to kill -- Detroit revisited -- Hardcore -- Nymphomania -- On Yonge Street -- Toronto nocturne -- Rereading Kerouac's On the road -- Streets -- Fire and ashes -- Dream -- Logos bogus -- Dirge for Janis Joplin -- Alleluia! -- Love poem -- Azaleas for an outpatient -- Indian serenade -- Shore leave -- Full moon -- To my newborn son -- British Columbia -- Devil's club -- Haiku for a sperm whale -- Fog in the city -- A postcard from Peru -- In memoriam -- A painting -- Primal scenes -- Visiting my parents -- Grievance -- Il Sangue -- Florida -- Dead opossums -- Rattlesnake -- Untitled -- Picnic on Chickamauga battlefield -- Tennessee Williams, 1977 -- Robinson Jeffers -- The brig -- The death of Robert Desnos -- 382-44-9842 -- A girl on the subway -- Woman in labor -- The abortion -- Still life -- Tourists -- To a young actress out of work in Montreal -- Elegy -- Tekahionwake -- Mako Sica -- Lines written after a sleepless night -- On the eve of my thirty-sixth birthday -- Most people don't want to be told -- After reading Dostoevsky's Notes from underground -- The night after Christmas -- Poinsettia -- The snow woman -- To Mary Jane, on her twenty-ninth birthday -- Under the Ambassador Bridge -- Wyoming -- Montana -- Only in America -- Prison yard -- Night train -- Rejection slip -- 344 Davenport Road -- To my father -- The old barn -- Winter solstice -- Lyric -- Nocturne -- Homage to Walter Anderson -- On first looking into The Horn Island logs of Walter Inglis Anderson -- Birdwatching -- Out of time -- To a friend -- Baudelaire's sketch of Jeanne Duval -- Transvestite -- Unholy sonnet -- Chthonic light -- Epigram -- Where does the marbled murrelet nest? -- Parts of a flower -- Poem -- Skyscape -- In a country churchyard -- September 22, 1990 -- Rain -- Moment -- Toy trucks -- Prelude to a life -- In my father's garden -- The earthworm -- Garter snake -- Mockingbird -- Chickadees -- The butcher-bird -- Alphabet birds -- Have you ever seen a slimy gray slug? -- Fiddler crab -- Snapping turtle -- I once had a pet praying mantis -- Lines to a ladybug -- The bombardier beetle -- Walkingstick -- The thingumajig -- If I were a dragonfly -- A lesson in taxonomy -- The centipede -- Tree of heaven -- In the forest -- Spring morning -- Monarch butterfly -- Alligator tracks -- In the tropics -- The tugboat -- Suburban gothic -- Zug Island -- Toronto is the Indian word for day job -- Obit -- The visitant -- New Orleans sketches -- My mother loved to dance the tango -- Climacteric -- Words -- La Puttana Maria -- In memory of Joseph Cote -- My room at the Royal Hotel -- Watching my wife make passatelli.

ISBN

1550712101 (pbk.)

LCCN

2005926036

OCLC

• 59876234
• ocm59876234
• SCSB-5243028

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries