Research Catalog

Title

Pageant / Joanna Fuhrman.

Author

Fuhrman, Joanna, 1972-

Publication

Farmington, Me. : Alice James Books, c2009.

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Details

Description

73 p.; 22 cm.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

The New Realism -- Ode to Television -- The Summer We Were All Seventeen -- Plain Sight -- The 22nd Century -- Testimony -- You Don't Mean That Gesture, She Said -- On Some Gossip Overheard at the Meritocracy Bar and Grill -- A True Story That Is Not About Me -- You Who Are Full of Fear, Fear Not -- Oh Specious Skies, Our Exit Where? -- The Magic Puppy Dog Biscuit Predicts the Return of Fall -- The Shaman Figurine Car Ornament Explains the Accident, Then Naps -- Rock the Hothouse, Loot the Brain -- Planetary Notebook -- Why Are All the Elephants Crying? -- A Woman Wears a Nose Like a Lost Dwelling -- At the Evil Boss Convention -- Portrait on Expired Film -- Stagflation -- The Writer's Life -- And Yes, I Would Like Another Ghost-shaped Truffle! -- The Lecture -- Facts for Survival -- Nostalgia -- Uniforms Are Sexy Too -- The Joke -- By the Skeletons of Hurdygurdy Monkeys and Other Journeys Toward Nanotechnology -- Unnamed Street with Five Fingers and a Box -- Forgiveness -- Poem in Favor of Joy -- Boots, Mistletoe, Cookies and Thumbs -- Song with Borrowed Shoes -- This Is What I Meant when I Said My Memories Are Not Exactly True -- How to Be Happy -- Fuzzy Parable with Gin Fizz -- The Joke -- The Automythologist Takes a Vacation -- There's No Kindness -- The Car Door Squeaks Because I'm 32 -- Knots -- I Don't Live Here Often, She Said -- A Question -- For Janet Richmond, Who I Think Hated Elegies -- Broken Song with Light Bulb Tail -- Love Song with Loose Toes -- For Newlyweds.

ISBN

• 9781882295777
• 1882295773

LCCN

2009037580

OCLC

• ocn318876225
• 318876225

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries