Research Catalog

Title

The lords of misrule : poems, 1992-2001 / X.J. Kennedy.

Author

Kennedy, X. J.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

xi, 92 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction

Uniform Title

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).

Contents

• "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once" -- A Snapshot Rediscovered -- Jimmy Harlow -- Naomi Trimmer -- Five-and-Dime, Late Thirties -- Sailors with the Clap -- Deer Ticks -- Miss Olive Leahy's Rooms & Cigar Divan -- Salute Sweet Deceptions -- For Allen Ginsberg -- Visit -- Death of a First Child -- Epitaph Proposed for the Headstone of S. R. Quiett -- Fat Cats in Egypt -- The Homeless in Cairo Cemetery -- Thebes: In the Robber Village -- Mustafa Ferrari -- Close Call -- Street Moths -- Others -- Terminals -- In the Holding Lounge at Frankfurt Airport -- Police Court Saturday Morning -- Decor -- Covering the Massacre -- The Ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James -- Heard through the Walls of the Racetrack Glen Motel -- Afterward -- The Blessing of the Bikes -- A Scandal in the Suburbs -- Pileup -- Then and Now -- Commuter -- Mr. Longfellow's Iron Pen -- Obscenity -- Ballade of the Hanged -- The Spoke -- A Beard of Bees --
• A Curse on a Thief -- On Song -- Taking Aspirin -- Sharing the Score -- Daughter Like a Pendant -- Pie -- Lyric -- To His Lover, That She Be Not Overdressed -- Dusk Decides to Settle in Short Hills -- Shriveled Meditation -- Horny Man's Song -- Perplexities -- Best Intentions -- In the Airport Bar -- Ponce de Leon -- Harriet -- Meditation in the Bedroom of General Francisco Franco -- A Mobile -- Christmas Show at the Planetarium -- Maples in January -- In Defense of New England -- Obdurate Snow -- Pacifier -- September Twelfth, 2001.

ISBN

0801871689 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002069395

OCLC

• ocm49664156
• SCSB-4320845

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries