Research Catalog

Title

Smudging / by Diane Wakoski.

Author

Wakoski, Diane.

Publication

Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press, 1972.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Economou, George
• Owens, Rochelle
• Black Sparrow Press, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Description

153 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

American poetry

Note

• Poems.
• "Printed May 1972 in Santa Barbara for the Black Sparrow Press by Noel Young. Design by Barbara Martin. This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 250 hardcover copies numbered & signed by the poet; & 30 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray signed & with an original holograph poem by the poet."
• Rare Book copy 1: No. 203 of the hardcover copies.
• Rare Book copy 2: Paper wrappers. Inscribed to George [Economou] and Rochelle [Owens] by the author.

Contents

Smudging -- Greed : parts 3 & 4 -- Poet at the carpenter's bench -- Poem -- Mind like an old fish -- Set : the okapi -- Well informed -- When the shoe fits -- My trouble -- Steely silence -- Children visit the island -- To a friend who cannot accept my judgment of him -- Ladies, listen to me -- My knees go before the firing squad at dawn -- Item 556-50-8853 from the Perishing Person Catalogue -- Night rides of my neighbor Lorca, that prevent sleep -- Empress #8 -- #18 -- To an autocrat -- Settling the issues -- Fire -- Without desolation -- Nobody loves me, not even the voles, hyraxes, or elephants -- Sour milk -- Smallness -- Sun poem -- Poem dressed in a white baggy suit -- Anger at the weather -- Winter ode -- Overweight poem -- When metaphor replaces meteor showers -- To bed -- Moon explodes in autumn, as a milkweed pod -- Water under the bridge -- Her throat -- To open use a carnelian key -- Duchess potatoes -- Love poem to the magician -- My little heart pops out, like springs -- Love poem -- With rings on her fingers & bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes -- Feet on the ground -- Screw, a technical love poem -- My legs -- My mother tries to visit me in the dead of night -- Placing a $2 bet for a man who will never go to the horse races anymore -- Love is just an old Buick -- Winter poem for Tony Weinberger written on the occasion of feeling very happy -- Fanny's cold blue eyes -- Pterodactyl -- Poem to celebrate long life -- Empress -- Portrait of a lady -- Vulture -- Stories for Buffalo -- Who is my king of Spain? -- Imaginary print of your Spanish foot -- Poem for Judy Garland, which is a field guide to butterflies -- Wishbones -- Mariachis : a glimpse -- Handbook of marriage & wealth -- Joyful black demon of Sister Clara flies through the midnight woods on her snowmobile -- On Barbara's shore.

ISBN

• 0876851316
• 9780876851319
• 0876851308
• 9780876851302

LCCN

72186536

OCLC

• ocm00363822
• 363822

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries