Research Catalog

Title

Bay of angels : poems / Diane Wakoski.

Author

Wakoski, Diane

Publication

Tallahassee, Florida : Anhinga Press, 2013.

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Description

xv, 118 pages; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• 2000 - 2099
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

• American poetry – 21st century.
• Poetry

Note

• Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

CELLULOID LONGINGS -- "La Baie des Anges:"The Shores of the Milky Way -- "The Purple Rose of Cairo" -- "Breathless" -- The Blue Marine Taxi That Picked Me Up at the Movies -- Cocteau's Le Sang d'un Poete: The Window, Neither Particle or Wave, That Can't Be Opened -- Dancing with My Father -- Fellini's "La Strada'' -- Spike, Not Angel: Imagining Another Spinoff from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" -- La Femme Nikita -- Winter Solstice -- "The Spiral Staircase:" Apples vs. Oranges -- PALM TREES -- Torch Song -- Bell Bottom Trousers -- California Eyes: A Meditation from Poitou-Charentes -- Cognac in France -- Szymborska's Cigarette -- Persephone Steps Off the Elevator at the Fourth Floor -- Persephone's Soliloquy: I Watched You Sleeping, Blue Flowers -- Showering Behind the Zodiac's Curtain -- Tea with Orpheus -- Some Beauty Needs a Dimness -- THE LADY OF LIGHT MEETS THE SHADOW Boy -- A California Girl Opens a Triple Creme Cheese from the Cowgirl Creamery in Petaluma -- Diane Sends Garden Observations to the Grocery Boy -- Asking the Pizza Boy to Share a Cup of Gunpowder Tea -- Goldfish Narratives -- Pavese's Lawn -- "Oysters with Lemon in Monmartre" -- David Reminds Me of the River's Silence -- Cleaning Up Petal Drop -- The Pizza Boy Becomes a Fromagiere -- Marilyn Gives Me a White Fleshed Peach -- Cerulean -- When the Dahlias, Who Once Were Beautiful Women -- Not the Bridge of Sighs, But the Bridge of Boys -- A Sip of Water -- Wanting to Wear His Tweed Jacket -- A Star of Silent Screen Sits Next to the Shadow Boy at the Movies -- Gravel -- Matthew at Home in November -- Reinventing the Measure -- EPILOGUE: POETICS -- Meditation on Flowers

ISBN

• 9781934695326 (pbk.)
• 1934695327 (pbk.)

OCLC

867013059

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library