Research Catalog

Title

A short bestiary of love and madness : poems / George Looney.

Author

Looney, George, 1959-

Publication

Nacogdoches, Tex. : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

79 p.; 23 cm.

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Not marrow or muscle, but love -- Made of the body -- The nuances of strange tongues -- Why they're called ghosts -- The blood in the wheat -- Formed of burning and song -- Of lost bodies and love -- Madness in the form of birds -- Madagascar -- Burning the world clean -- Curses and blessings -- A startle of light on the mountains -- To sing and touch with the body -- The bodies they cling to -- Music left by another -- The nonsense of bird tongues -- The witness of water -- The pleasure of touch -- White birds flying over Ohio -- Even when birds are quiet -- The ferocity of dreams -- Children of the moon -- Infinite distance -- Everything winding down -- While we chanted and the city burned -- Das Lied einer Mutter -- The tyranny of love and hemlock -- Monkeys with soul -- Figures in the light and the cold -- The blind bodies we walk in -- Sacrifice -- The residue of desire -- With a darker song -- Finding time -- Resuscitation -- Long sentences that could be answers -- The moon between the branches -- While his body sang -- The erotic wavering of air -- The dark they call seeing -- To sanctify the flesh -- The calloused heels of prayer and desire -- Figures that could be divine -- The awkwardness and grace of gravity -- Migrations -- Of touch and voice and other pleasures -- Intercession -- Sentences that burn the air -- The lime and dust of disguises -- Grace in the violent world.

ISBN

• 1936205343
• 9781936205349

OCLC

760311272

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library