Research Catalog

Title

In a prominent bar in Secaucus : new and selected poems, 1955-2007 / X.J. Kennedy.

Author

Kennedy, X. J.

Publication

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Description

xiv, 205 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction

Uniform Title

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

First confession -- Solitary confinement -- On a child who lived one minute -- Faces from a bestiary -- Nude descending a staircase -- The autumn in norfolk shipyard -- Warning to sculptors -- Lewis Carroll -- In a prominent bar in Secaucus one day -- Barking dog blues -- Lilith -- The sirens -- Narcissus suitor -- Theater of dionysus -- At the stoplight by the paupers' graves -- Little elegy -- Ladies looking for lice -- B negative -- At the ghostwriter's deathbed -- Rondel -- One a.m. with voices -- Cross ties -- Poets -- Nothing in heaven functions as it ought -- Creation morning -- Main road west -- Edgar's story -- National shrine -- Peace and plenty -- Driving cross-country -- Reading trip -- Requiem in Hoboken -- For a maiden lady -- Pottery class -- Absentminded bartender -- Loose woman -- Ant trap -- Day seven -- The ascent -- Golgotha -- Ode -- Two apparitions -- Artificer -- Daughter in the house -- The shorter view -- Giving in to you -- Song : great chain of being -- Consumer's report -- The atheist's stigmata -- In a secret field -- Mining town -- Schizophrenic girl -- Evening tide -- A little night music -- Celebrations after the death of John Brennan (1974) -- Talking dust bowl blues -- Song to the tune of "Somebody stole my gal" -- In a dry season -- A footpath near Gethsemane -- Dirty English potatoes -- Goblet -- Aunt Rectita's Good Friday -- Hangover mass -- One-night homecoming -- October -- Joshua -- Old men pitching horseshoes -- To Dorothy on her exclusion from The Guinness book of world records -- At the last rites for two hotrodders -- Flitting flies -- The death of Professor Backwards -- At Brown Crane Pavilion -- On the proposed seizure of twelve graves in a colonial cemetery -- A Beardsley moment -- The arm -- Twelve dead, hundreds homeless -- The Waterbury Cross -- Veterinarian -- The animals you eat -- Snug -- Overnight pass -- Pont Mirabeau -- Churchbells -- To the writers forbidden to write -- Terse elegy for J. V. Cunningham -- On being accused of wit -- Emily Dickinson leaves a message to the world now that her homestead in Amherst has an answering machine -- The withdrawn gift -- On the square -- Dump -- Summer children -- Tableau intime -- Finis -- Black velvet art -- "The purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once" -- Jimmy Harlow -- Naomi Trimmer -- Five-and-dime, late thirties -- Sailors with the clap -- For Allen Ginsberg -- Thebes : in the robber village -- Close call -- Street moths -- Decor -- The ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James -- A scandal in the suburbs -- To his lover, that she be not overdressed -- The blessing of the bikes -- Sharing the score -- A curse on a thief -- Pie -- Shriveled meditation -- Meditation in the bedroom of General Francisco Franco -- Maples in January -- September twelfth, 2001 -- Panic in the carwash -- At Paestum -- Rites -- Small house torn down to build a larger -- Uncertain burial -- Innocent times -- Epiphany -- Furnished rental -- Brotherhood -- Death of a window washer -- Pacifier -- Geometry -- Silent cell phones -- Fireflies -- Mrs. Filbert's golden quarters -- Jerry Christmas -- Poor people in church -- Sonnet beginning with a line and a half abandoned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- God's obsequies -- Storehouse -- At the antiques fair -- Secret river -- Command decision -- Bald eagle -- Meeting a friend again after thirty years.

ISBN

• 9780801886539 (acid-free paper)
• 0801886538 (acid-free paper)
• 9780801886546 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0801886546 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2006103114

OCLC

• OCM77504801
• 77504801
• SCSB-5354900

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries