Research Catalog

Title

Some angels wear black : selected poems / Eli Coppola.

Author

Coppola, Eli.

Publication

San Francisco : Manic D Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Holdings

Details

Description

160 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Narrative poems with straightforward sensibilities confront the difficulties and rewards of love: what one goes through to love and be loved. Social injustice ("Jury Duty") and mortality ("Casual Hands, Brutal Stars, Past Things") are recurrent themes, but love is always the driving force. Coppola's heartfelt writing reveals an unrelenting, courageous struggle with a progressive disabling disease ("Enlightenment and Muscular Dystrophy")."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Muscular dystrophy > Patients > Poetry
• Love poetry, American

Contents

Introduction / Michelle Tea -- Flying -- Casual hands, brutal stars, past things -- Roses -- Hired hands -- When one of us can name it -- Part one : holy shit look at that moon -- Part two : the moon in the morning -- The more you see, the more you see -- A chat with Eve entitled let us no longer be reasonable -- Some angels wear black -- The place marked X -- The suicide note -- Message after a bottle -- Eyes for eyes -- Considering that enormous place -- Dinner -- My dog -- Cross walk -- Before the haze -- In a time after -- Unnatural selection -- Invisible men's voices -- Between here and there -- Eddy -- Or a thousand dollars -- What a significant amount of objectivity can do -- At a locked facility somewhere inland -- Alternative education -- It was good -- In the rear view mirror -- Going back -- For Helen -- To my child who is 52 days old -- Part two in the feminine surgery series -- Jury duty -- Enlightenment and muscular dystrophy -- It's not a house, it's a woman -- A couple -- Who am I to say -- Work nights -- Running dream -- Count your blessings yeah but count these too -- The doctors told me I should be very careful -- Poem about driving disguised as the silver city midnight express -- Mississippi Street -- Honest mama -- A rock and a hard place -- The hot charade -- Still as we stand -- April Fool's Day -- April Fool's Day II -- Dues -- That casual miracle -- As yet untitled -- The lucky duet : so long Lucky -- One of the lucky ones -- Stranger -- Well I like the fireflies and the thunder -- Sf song -- My most of all pal -- If I cannot -- Animals -- Strolling -- Till death do they part -- The saga of Q and A -- One morning's metaphor -- Her words against his -- O your honor I assure you -- Gold boots -- (If the camel's back breaks in the desert who will identify the last straw) -- Ok so I'm nuts -- Now, and swiftly -- Wedding poem -- Not on the mountain -- Bitch to bitch -- Hostage -- The birth of a flying thing -- Frankie and the flower girl -- The line between ignorance and innocence is not a line -- A bargain -- What I might do with a boyfriend if I had one -- Well just a quick one -- Make of me many miracles.

ISBN

0916397718 (trade pbk. original)

LCCN

2005005474

OCLC

• ocm58043112
• SCSB-5186218

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries