Research Catalog

Title

What happens to me / Chuck Wachtel.

Author

Wachtel, Chuck.

Publication

Brooklyn : Hanging Loose Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Description

128 pages; 23 cm

Contents

• Day -- Entangled in Life -- OK -- Predicate -- Again -- Something That Happened to Me -- To & From Sonnet -- Archeology -- The Storyteller's Motivation -- Honeymoon: Central Indiana -- Middle Age -- Nothing to Forgive -- Sonnet: The Bee -- Three Interrogative Tanka -- Persephone -- The Morning of Sunday, October 6, On North Street, Lafayette, Indiana -- My Best Interests -- The Good Part -- On Truth -- On Proximity: 1 -- On Realism -- When You Think -- On the Occurrence of Things -- On Courbet's "The Origin of the World" -- On Tabloid Beauty -- On Fathers and Sons -- On Translation -- Sonnet: If You Are Not Vigilant, a Language You Do Not Speak Well Will Force You to Rely on, and Abide By, Stereotype and Over-simplification -- Workingman's Wife: Who She Is, Who She Is Not, What She Buys - and Why -- On Class and Desire -- On Remembering Dreams -- On Proximity: 2 -- On Visiting Prophet's Rock, Overlooking the Site of the Battle of Tippecanoe --
• On History: Being Two Excerpts from The World's Best Conundrums and Riddles of All the Ages -- On Fate -- On the Counsel of Stories -- Her Husband, Standing Beside Her on the Platform of the 125th Street Station... -- First Footnote to the Poem About the Woman at the 125th Street Station... -- Imagine This Last Footnote As Something Akin to the Experience of Looking Through a Microscope With Three Different Lenses... -- The Passage -- Words and Music -- Two Quarters, Two Nickels and the Jacket of the One Album He Ever Recorded... -- Old Sycamore -- Supply Side -- "When the Dust Settled the Dow, Which Tracks Thirty of the Nation's Leading Companies, Was Down Nearly Four Percent ..." -- Sin Embargo 1 -- Sin Embargo 2 -- The Constellation Itself and the Stars That Attend It.

ISBN

• 188241375X
• 1882413741 (pbk.)

LCCN

99058981

OCLC

• 42888142
• ocm42888142
• SCSB-3885433

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries