Research Catalog

Title

Adult swim / Heather Hartley.

Author

Hartley, Heather,

Publication

• Pittsburgh, Pa. : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

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Description

76 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"'Adult Swim' has a remarkably welcoming ocnversational voice. The headlong rush is intoxicating, and many poems veer off or abruptly end, though the party continues, having never left off, on the next page. Then suddenly, something stark, something beautiful or devastating stops you. Harley's range is exactly what you want from a book of poems- the range of a life."

Series Statement

Carnegie Mellon poetry series

Uniform Title

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Subject

• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sleepless nights of marine life ; I. When all your friends are sea urchins -- Breakfast -- "Everything tastes better with bacon," -- Some benefits of chewing -- Patrician pleasures -- The haberdashery of the missing E -- The baby with a top hat & cigar -- Toward some leaning near the radio & those waves -- To a friend in a strange city -- If you can read this, ; II. Pool rules -- At the king's party -- This was where it was -- On several desires & entreaties at once -- Gingiva -- Ode to my right tennis shoe in Montparnasse -- Dear Vallejo, -- Jules & moi -- Lifting spoons ; III. I remember driftwood -- What I liked best was the log flume &- -- Fragments for a surgeon -- This was Paris, France, and this then was now -- Here, even the dogs smoke -- Give me your hand -- In the salon of Madame Miklós Radnóti -- "I was a girl in Hungary" -- On a one-way street in Debrecen ; IV. You, unusual among fish, live in no aquaria -- Caffè Ristretto, with amnesia -- Every time you leave, the basil plant dies -- Nine lives in ten or eleven lines -- The Vesuvius, envious, -- Chaos is a verb here ; V. Who will provide me with a copious fountain -- Toward that sweet nest where I remained, though parting -- Ah, at least delay by an hour or two your going forth -- I do no envy you, o holy angels -- Those stars whose light has been so impressed -- And just as you take solace -- To course across more kindly waters now -- While in my heart, I feel the sweetness of it yet -- Syrenka.

ISBN

• 088748607X
• 9780887486074

LCCN

^^2015945712

OCLC

923649946

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library