Research Catalog

Title

Father said : poems / by Hal Sirowitz.

Author

Sirowitz, Hal.

Publication

Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2004.

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Details

Description

168 p.; 22 cm.

Contents

Flies love you -- Ducks at peace -- Two rabbits in a room -- The steak's previous life -- It that fly could talk -- Squirrel problem -- What we can learn from ants -- How to be a humanitarian -- The deer on the side of the road -- Saving a spider's life -- Being nice to the birds -- Mosquito bite -- Knowing them through their pets -- Not to have died in vain -- Two ends of a cat -- I wasn't the one who killed it -- Kitty little -- Same species, different sex -- Saluting the bull -- Doggie bag -- When autumn leaves have almost finished falling -- Trusting my feet -- Bad drivers -- The other side of the car -- Entering a new state -- The wrecking ball -- Visiting Japan -- Rearranging the speedometer -- Meeting place -- Water, water everywhere -- Tit for tat -- The story of a Jerk -- Blocking my view -- Snobs -- The shrunken version -- The lost friend -- The war at home -- When I used to cook -- The substitute for swings -- Substituting husbands -- Nothing much to share -- Holding on to the chains -- How her liver was saved -- Buying him a bar -- War wounds -- Asking for her hand -- The loan -- Sharing the pain -- What's there to explore -- The long leash -- Sight unseen -- In the lion's mouth -- The male advantage -- What I'm known for -- Imitation wood -- Inside/outside -- Getting rid of her -- Rotten personality -- The subject was always roses -- The cost of talking -- Zebra-striped sports jacket -- The kingdom under siege -- The natural -- Losing my place -- The dead don't return what you leant them -- Trouble in gossip land -- Ten minutes ahead -- What house was he talking about -- The hawk who become a dove -- The listener -- Being a good citizen -- The world belongs to the young -- The absence of light -- The price of marriage -- Tell her I'm hot here -- When words come easy -- Holding on to my tongue -- Correcting an unbalance -- What do you mean when you say you love me -- The mistake -- Mutual trust -- The woman's fault -- It takes two to avoid someone -- Wondering when to return -- Why God created eve -- The sound of a tree falling -- The cost of a new hairdo -- She likes her twenties crisp -- The extra pounds belong to her -- Letting the washing machine decide -- Upgrading the bungalow -- Pointing out progress -- How to be a gentleman -- The hair on my head -- The silent divorce -- By the time he got to India -- How to build confidence -- How to avoid being idle -- Facts about grammar -- The price of being alone -- Similar brains -- The use of facts -- Talking during the commercials -- The benefits of ignorance -- The correct distance from a crocodile -- The benefits of an active lifestyle -- Lengthy services -- What walking up means -- Cutting down costs -- The pursuit of laziness -- What followed your birth -- Undecided -- Abandoning the declaration -- Doesn't matter what it looks like -- Saving it for later -- No place for it to go -- Tight bathing suits -- The art of marriage -- The movies she picks -- No signs of getting better -- Misery loves company -- Only your eyes seem to work -- The need to get away -- Getting me steamed -- Worth bending down for -- Practicing for that day -- Spring cleaning came early -- Mother of invention -- The peanut count -- Reusing words -- The joke that got no laughs -- Taking your fun while you can -- To coincide -- God's delivery system -- Dressing up for a possible memory -- Taking longer than your mother -- Choice of diseases -- When the body breaks down -- Six-shooter -- A call from death valley -- The trapped sardine -- Escape from the hospital -- Among familiar surroundings -- Saving a spot for me in heaven -- One organ too many -- Four thumbs are better than two -- Why there are no miracles -- Dying once is enough -- Pushing the future further ahead -- All the dead I've known -- The news of my teeth -- God's laugh -- Cemetery plot & stone -- A crooked man -- What to save for death -- Half dead -- Daily lotto.

ISBN

1932360271 (trade cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004013912

OCLC

ocm55671472

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries