Research Catalog

Title

Homemade traps for new world Brians / Evan Willner.

Author

Willner, Evan.

Publication

Buffalo, NY : BlazeVox Books, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

54 pages; 24 cm

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Preface. "The slot of hollow suns risen" -- First state : "immediately the urge was on him once more" -- Second state : when chemistry generates mental worms in the fields -- Third state : if a man rubbed across and smeared his body's limits -- Fourth state : skyscrapers look like unkillable memorials -- Fifth state : jerked forward by intimate chemical exchanges -- Sixth state : you were always the one who wanted to make Earth face -- Seventh state : just like a mother voids herself of children and then -- Eighth state : and windows aren't metaphorical like cut glass -- Ninth state : then there's the issue of the Maypole bodies that pull -- Tenth state : after the Renaissance buffet is arranged, seasoned -- Eleventh state : though their playing at leaping from what look to us like -- Twelfth state : the wall looked like a wall and bore when he looked its brick -- Thirteenth state : when you undulate all over yourself, processes -- Fourteenth state : tapping -- Fifteenth state : in prehistory oral nerves were enveloped like -- Sixteenth state : pour us into city bodies someone you've got to -- Seventeenth state : when you, your face invaginated and your finger -- Eighteenth state : then there's the one about the west tending contracting -- Nineteenth state : in the great give and take plains statesmen like us pack -- Twentieth state : this photograph of a man who is about to be -- Twenty-first state : believe that finches collect, shout, and fan each other -- Twenty-second state : post-mortem on the poet's father's mother -- Twenty-third state : now you're dead and your furniture is dusted with skin -- Twenty-fourth state : when spring loaded cars bud from far countries -- Twenty-fifth state : the pilgrims stood in clouds at the far coast, having rubbed -- Preface. The workshop of potential literature -- Twenty-sixth state : "there can be no concession" -- Twenty-seventh state : a Brian may be delivered, chubby and sulking, -- Twenty-eighth state : the first time a homeless face exhales itself over -- Twenty-ninth state : even after its loam filling has dried, the doll's skin -- Thirtieth state : the pipsqueakiest of mechanisms you hobbied -- Thirty-first state : if all tagalong creation insists on being -- Thirty-second state : this is how the infant bundle, hemoglobin thin -- Thirty-fourth state : the sheer pet flesh pawing your chest like groupies, -- Thirty-fifth state : seeing Brians exhuming themselves from sidewalk cracks -- Thirty-sixth state : between you and me, given the Brians that feeble -- Thirty-seventh state : say to yourself that pigeons wind the buildings sliding -- Thirty-eighth state : we stood firm in the face of our Brians, swaying back -- Thirty-ninth state : when wrecking balls punch mouths into a skyscraper, it -- Fortieth state : when bodies burn down the street, popping arclights pouring -- Forty-first state : the internal combustion engines flare euphoric -- Forty-second state : even the skin of your boots ripples with leaf breathy -- Forty-third state : say there were a few pounds of flesh folded over and -- Forty-fourth state : and as uninhabitable as all the other -- Forty-fifth state : (understand that when we came with our milk sweat and -- Forty-sixth state : pore rich and penetrable : it had invented these -- Forty-seventh state : "decently ambitious but lacking the raw talent" -- Forty-eighth state : when our gardenheaded Brians discover they'd been -- Forty-ninth state : one more permutation of genetic letters will -- Fiftieth state : when our cities have settled into their concrete old.

ISBN

• 1934289442
• 9781934289440

LCCN

2006940040

OCLC

• ocn189864473
• 189864473
• SCSB-5424481

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries