The captain asks for a show of hands : poems /
"What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from documentary films, overheard conversations, and scraps of poems and song, only to reassemble with a gat...
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Graywolf Press,
[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Haiku (failed)
- Fire
- False prophet
- Jesus knew
- Air
- Imagination
- Greetings, friend (minotaur)
- Kedge
- The baffled king composing hallelujah
- Earth
- Hello, birdy
- Forgetting something
- Almost song
- Self-exam (my body is a cage)
- Water
- Invasion of the body snatchers
- Oh here
- Seven testimonies (redacted)
- Dear lady of perpetual something
- E. corpse
- Pulse (hidden bird)
- Saudade.