Research Catalog

Title

Ripple effect : new and selected poems / by Elaine Equi.

Author

Equi, Elaine.

Publication

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

269 pages; 23 cm

Contents

Today is the first day of the rest of your life -- Heigh-ho, heigh-ho -- Epic mountain hoax -- Mountain to mountain -- Mono-polytheism -- Invocation -- A perfect shadow -- $1 exceptional coffee -- Ultra-confessional -- 1 + 1 = 3 -- Calcium rush -- Gradually, gills -- Ambien -- The pill's oval portrait -- Etudes -- To do -- John Coltrane's central park west -- Astor Piazzolla -- Gone but not forgiven -- Competing lists -- Word and sentence -- Found in translation -- A poetics of optics -- A laminated lament -- Vaya con Dios -- Perversely patriotic -- Bad folk song -- Two dozen roses for Jackson Mac Low : a cento -- The fragrance grifters -- Unisex colognes -- Echo -- Legacy -- Almonds -- Ciao Bella chocolate sorbet -- Pre-Raphaelite pinups -- Conversations with fountains -- The sheep of days -- Bent orbit -- Tao -- Invoice -- A date with Robbe-Grillet -- My illustrious Gargoyle ancestors -- Folk dance -- Maria Callas -- Another form of suicidal behavior -- Lesbian Corn -- Approaching orgasm -- Martha Graham -- Crusade -- At the end of summer -- At the mall -- Crickets crush woman -- In a monotonous dream -- Puritans -- Being sick together -- Surface tension -- The foreign legion -- After a promising youth -- Things to do in the Bible -- Breakfast with Jerome -- You go to my head -- Escape from women's prison -- Aleister Crowley slept here -- A Bouquet of objects -- Pale yellow -- For David Hockney -- Brand X -- Men in camisoles -- Dear Michael -- In the mail today -- After Herrick -- Destinations -- Art about fear -- Up the ladder of enlightenment -- My father sees a UFO -- Ninety percent of all serial killers -- Mulberry street -- Prescription -- A lemon -- Decoy -- After Bacon -- Ah! -- To Harry Crosby at the Hotel Des Artistes -- Sometimes I get distracted -- Detail -- Self portrait as you -- Pink shutters -- Thesis sentence -- Beauty secret -- Monologue : Frank O'Hara -- Table of contents for an imaginary book -- Second thoughts -- Armani weather -- Remorse after shopping -- Wang Wei's moon -- Almost transparent -- Cupboard/shrine -- From Lorine -- Fennel -- Starting to Rain -- Letter of recommendation -- Voice-over -- The origami of time -- Jerome meditating -- National poetry month -- Autobiographical poem -- The banal -- The seven veils of spring -- Negative capabilities -- Asking for a raise -- I interview Elaine Equi on the four elements -- Opaque saints -- A quiet poem -- The sensuous reader -- The objects in catalogs -- The objects in Japanese novels -- The objects in fairy tales -- Wittgenstein's colors -- The burden of bad objects -- My taste -- Everywhere today we see a lack of commitment -- "Your Purple Arrives" -- O patriarchy -- The killers inside me -- Women and magic -- Early influence -- Furniture fantasy -- Take-out fantasy -- Alien fantasy -- Out of the cloud chamber -- The lost poems -- A bend in the light -- Intersections -- A sentimental song -- Trenton local -- Dessert -- For August in April -- Return of the sensuous reader -- After and in keeping with H.D. -- Career -- Reset -- Variations on the horizon -- Okay -- The monster dances -- Cannibals in space -- Poem beginning with a line by James Wright -- The most beautiful blonde in the world -- Ode to Chicago -- Clown -- Then I became the weathergirl -- For Hollis Sigler -- Waiting on you -- Yes or no -- Hi-fashion girl -- Arranged affair -- Amber street -- Poem -- Dolor -- A plan.

ISBN

• 9781566891974 (alk. paper)
• 1566891973 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006039246

OCLC

• ocm76897666
• 76897666
• SCSB-5352425

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries