Research Catalog

Title

Getting lost in a city like this / Jack Anderson.

Author

Anderson, Jack, 1935-

Publication

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Hanging Loose Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Description

98 pages; 23 cm

Contents

I. Invite Me -- Getting Lost in a City Like This -- Invite Me -- The Way the Trams Pass -- Open House -- Long Ago in New York -- Bum Pies -- Dogged Love -- In Uniform -- Sexy -- Ordering (Baker's Dozen): Sonnet -- Riding the El -- Hello from Guido -- How I Put My Life in Order -- The Marriage of the Summer Hours -- II. Sailing and Drowning -- Sailing and Drowning -- The Play of the Curtain -- Going to the Moon -- Consider How Far Men Have Come in Our Times -- Golf -- A Gift to the Plains -- Household Resurrections -- Against Science Fiction -- Who Are the Rich and Where Do They Live? -- The Social Contract -- III. The Chinese Menu of the World -- Changelings -- The Chinese Menu of the World -- The Schnattners Are Coming -- Plot -- Gaite Parisienne -- Indulgence and Restraint: A Moral Lesson -- Licks -- Bites -- Boats on the Water -- The Winged -- Some Nights in Heaven -- The Truth of Myth -- The Parrot Joke -- Hitler's Daughter -- Poem I Cannot Read Aloud -- Three Museums -- Cowboys -- Spaceships -- The Stars on the Other Side of the World -- IV. Reason Enough -- Reason Enough -- The Feasts -- The Perils of Reading -- Night Boat -- Scales and Arpeggios -- Reunion -- Unsafe Sleep -- A Fear of Old Age -- As We Grow Older Together -- Grace on Sunday -- Some Things Seen on a Summer Vacation -- Transcendence.

ISBN

• 9781931236980
• 1931236984
• 9781931236973 (pbk.)
• 1931236976 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2008046581
• 40016801589

OCLC

• 268547474
• ocn268547474
• SCSB-5479198

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries