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Title

Showdown with a cactus : poems chronicling the prickly struggle between the forces of Dubya-ness and enlightenment, 2003 - 2006 / Louis Daniel Brodsky.

Author

Brodsky, Louis Daniel.

Publication

St. Louis, Mo. : Time Being Books, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

144 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009 > Poetry
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Poetry

Contents

Crimson drizzle -- Fifty-first state -- Liberators -- Cold wars -- Ground zero -- Bliss -- The elite -- Into the sea -- 9/10/03 -- Bells -- Undecided -- Losers -- In his prime -- Unamused -- The triumph of the will -- Faith-based -- U.S. death toll -- Chinook down, in Iraq -- Mr. Shadow -- Leonardo's moon -- Three-time loser -- "I know what I know" -- The capture -- Dead time -- Redux -- Swampland -- In the crater -- Guilty -- "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" -- Another spring -- Happily ever after -- Canary -- Something funny -- Visions of election -- The making of an idiot -- The coming of the Republican National Convention -- Delegate -- Four more years -- Dragon claws -- Showdown with a cactus -- Our emperor's new clothes -- Deferred -- The presidential election of 2004 -- The ultimate sacrifice -- Reelection -- Preelection jitters -- Democracy in action -- The library -- On the cusp of Bush's second term -- Re : election -- Top dog -- Inauguration Day 2005 -- Bush's "brain" -- Thirty years after -- Utopia -- The Pied Piper of Crawford : the unexpurgated fairy tale -- Work in progress -- Order of the day -- Ticking time bombs -- Bradley Omar -- The apostate -- Should have been -- Buster Thibodoux -- Taking the fall -- Democracy -- The facts -- Dick Cheney, on operation what-the-fuck-have-I-done? -- Bad-cow disease -- Snooped on -- The politics of Paranoia -- Tuning out -- A dick without a dick -- Terra Cognita -- The truth about the founding fathers -- The mind of Dubya -- Cheap shot -- A few fiendish men -- Finding a happy medium -- In my day -- Effects of the Iraq War -- The coming theocracy -- After the circus -- The pet goat -- Grandma's recipe for homemade uranium stew -- Sandbox -- E pluribus quoque plures the beautiful -- Home opener -- On bringing back America's jobs -- Death tolls -- The whole Megillah -- At the tomb of the unknowns -- Fill in the blank -- Paradise insurgent -- Operation defunct freedom -- Another night's sleep -- Spark -- An Ameba's eyelash -- Sandstorm -- 9/11/06 -- Happy-hour 9/11 -- The coalition of the passive.

ISBN

• 9781568091105 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 1568091109 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2006032948

OCLC

• 72161872
• ocm72161872
• SCSB-5329336

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries