Research Catalog

Title

Manthology : poems on the male experience / edited by Craig Crist-Evans, Kate Fetherston, and Roger Weingarten.

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crist-Evans, Craig
• Fetherston, Kate.
• Weingarten, Roger
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xii, 186 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Ninety-three poets--twenty-six of them female--take on self-doubt, fatherhood, sex, death, relationships, work, war, peace, and a diversity of other topics to form a collection of poems about men.

Subjects

• 2000-2099
• Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century
• Men > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Calling / Ai -- For years my father / Robert Alexander -- vigil / Ralph Angel -- Pulp fiction / David Baker -- uniform / Marvin Bell -- At ease / Elinor Benedict -- Fungus considered / Monica Berlin -- When my dead father called / Robert Bly -- Elvis decides to become a monk / Fleda Brown -- Catechism of the sea / Christopher Buckley -- What a boy does not say / Christopher Bursk -- Noodling / Narda Bush -- Hawthorne Metal, Detroit, 1939 / Marcus Cafagna -- My required tool / Justin Cain -- Going wrong in the house of Neptune / David Clewell -- Going out for cigarettes / Billy Collins -- violence / Gillian Conoley -- Fathers and sons / Peter Cooley -- moles / Marx Cox -- No guarantee / Craig Crist-Evans -- goat / Greg Delanty -- Parable of a marriage (Chi Gong) / Mark Doty -- How to make love to a man / Sharon Doubiago -- Straw hat / Rita Dove
• Genesis text for Larry Levis, who died alone / Norman Dubie -- routine things around the house / Stephen Dunn -- Daredevil / Stuart Dybek -- Walt, I salute you! / Lynn Emanuel -- Body and soul / B. H. Fairchild -- Hating / Kate Fetherston -- Supernal / Alice Fulton -- voyeur / Dana Gioia -- Torture boy at the Easter Confest, Repentance Creek / Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- Mountain lion / Barry Goldensohn -- Aztec father / Ray Gonzalez -- Questmale / Mark Halliday -- God's penis / Jeffrey Harrison -- bald truth / Bob Hicok -- Utah Jazz / Rick Higgerson -- man walks through his life / Jane Hirshfield -- Dickhead / Tony Hoagland -- men in the Hoboken bar / Jonathan Holden -- Keeping / Richard Howard -- mouth of him / David Huddle -- Hot wind, Provincetown Harbor / Cynthia Huntington -- Sonata of love's history / Richard Jackson -- Butterflies under persimmon / Mark Jarman
• Inside out / Jenna Johnson -- Nudes / Rodney Jones
• Doggerel for the great Czech phallometer / Richard Katrovas -- After Barranquillo, before Belize / Matthew Kearney -- green room / Sydney Lea -- drowning / David Lehman -- New Year's Eve, in hospital / Philip Levine -- muse is gone / Robert Long -- Lacrosse / Gary Margolis -- Xena, warrior princess / Campbell McGrath -- Father of the bride / Robin Metz -- What surprise him / Dinty Moore -- Sham Jew / Matt Morris -- Once near the border / David Mura -- Training horses / Jack Myers -- boy removes all traces from his room / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Winter, voyeurism / William Olsen -- Bedecked / Victoria Redel -- For Michaela / David Rivard -- Parable of the cheek / J. Allyn Rosser -- Cupid / Clare Rossini -- Scatological history / Lisa Rye -- male in the women's locker room / Natasha Saje -- Interview with a combat photographer / Chivas Sandage -- My friend is making himself / Philip Schultz -- Jubilee for the bomb / Maureen Seaton -- Douglass, a last letter / Tim Seibles -- Growing up / Jason Shinder -- Late psalm / Betsy Sholl -- In the park / Tom Sleigh -- Driving home to see the folks / Anthony Sobin -- Terms / Kevin Stein -- From the lake / David St. John -- While watching cops I think of you / Virginia Sutton -- Spring smoke / Arthur Sze -- Table / Richard Tillinghast -- Arc welder / Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody -- Prayer for the man who mugged my father, 72 / Charles Harper Webb -- Oh, atonement / Bruce Weigl -- inquisition : a romance / Roger Weingarten -- Sponge boy / Stefi Weisburd -- Chance encounter with a wounded man playing a theremin / Dara Wier -- Wartime photos of my father / David Wojahn -- Wander Luis / Carolyne Wright -- Hot house / Rick Zand.

ISBN

0877459886 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005056886

OCLC

• 62381574
• SCSB-11676016

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library