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Title

Pacific standard time : new & selected poems / Kevin Opstedal ; edited by Noel Black and Julien Poirer.

Author

Opstedal, Kevin, 1956-

Publication

• New York, New York : Bomb magazine ; Los Angeles, California : Libros Antenas Books ; Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016.
• Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution.
• Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn.
• ©2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Black, Noel, 1972-
• Poirer, Julien
• Dewey, Pamela
• Jaeger, K.
• Don't Look Now (Firm) compositor.
• Ugly Duckling Presse publisher.
• McNaughton & Gunn, printer.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

221 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This collection of new and selected poems by Santa Cruz-based poet Kevin Opstedal will be many people’s first introduction to this legendary Bay Area poet and small-press publisher. Full of West-Coast surf vernacular and the dark, hypnotic pull of waves breathing, Opstedal’s poems manage to float from Donne to the Romantics and Rimbaud, then wash up on the shores of the New York School in Bolinas. At 200+ pages, this book will give a thorough introduction/reintroduction to Opstedal's enormous output of chapbooks and two full-length collections, as well as new poems from a lone, reclusive voice that might otherwise find itself lost to its own time."--Publisher's website (viewed 09/29/2016).

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections. 2016
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

• Poems. 2016
• Pacific standard time : new and selected poems

Subject

• Surfing > California > Poetry
• California > Poetry

Genre/Form

• American poetry – 21st century.
• Poetry

Note

• Poems.
• "Cover photograph, "Bolinas 2003" by Pamela Dewey ©2016."--Verso, title page.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Curse of the surf Zombie -- The tender distortion of parking lots near the sea -- Banzai run -- The lives of the poets -- Rain -- Send 50 beers -- A short history of surf music -- Albatross taco -- Full tilt -- Live acoustic rust -- Poverty -- Stained glass -- Apollinaire's brother-in-law -- Dawn patrol -- Venice -- Beach access -- Tracks -- White man, tomorrow you die! -- Seems like -- Los paranoias -- Poem for Carmen Miranda -- Earthquake weather -- Distance -- California redemption value -- 100-year flood zone -- Needles on the beach -- Bong water babies -- One more lilting adrenalin riff -- Detour -- Figure the cumulative effect as mileage -- Standing water -- Aerosol -- Tropical depression -- Shitty dance music -- 90-percent water -- Morning glass -- Concrete submarines -- Baby donut -- Reckoning -- Kahuna Classics. Melodrama. The shimmy... -- Catholic poem -- In the wind -- The flames could be seen for miles -- The Cremation of Shelley -- 1000 Ships -- Pacific Bell -- Residuals ;
• II. Playa de los Muertos -- Reef dance -- Fading like a feather of excess acetylene -- The complete collected postcards -- Over the Edge -- The drowning man knows his God -- Jodie Foster at Malibu -- He wanted to know the names -- Sunset & noir -- Goodbye Kodachrome -- Repeat after me -- Yeah, maybe -- The sinking of the sushi boat -- Rare surf, vol. 2 -- With absolute zero reading on the consciousness meter -- Ripple effect -- Tiny bubbles -- Turning left at Jerusalem ... -- Some get translucent -- Hollywood -- For Anselm, Jane & the shape-shifters in the backyard -- Underwater ballet -- Mutiny on the bongos -- Endlessly rocking -- Poem near dusk -- Liquid sky -- 19th century tattoo -- Half jagged, half ocean smooth -- Cadillac to Mexico -- Slow ride south -- The stumble -- Cut glass -- Cruise control -- Up against it -- Bird of passage -- Smog Lines -- The code of the west -- Fadeaway -- The morning report -- Exchange rate -- Los Oxidados -- The sound of glass breaking -- Odysseus on the PCH -- Satan stole my surfboard -- Turning silver -- Calculated risk -- Prelude to a Quaalude -- Small change -- The mockingbird is my nightingale -- Selling a kidney on eBay -- Smack up (a romance) -- Seaslug duckwalk -- Dancing into the sand -- Chinese algebra -- Allegory & ode (condensed) -- 450 bus miles -- Source code -- Salt water credentials ;
• III. Truth as history, or an ode to medicine -- It melts in your brain not in your hand -- Correspondence -- Street legal -- You do not have to be present to win -- (I think I'm) surfing Japanese -- Narrow margin -- Center of the universe -- From my Chinese novel -- A man walks into a bar carrying an octopus -- All the heavy action was underwater -- Water on the Moon -- Duane Eddy mows his lawn -- The bride of frankenfish -- True romance -- Palisades -- Paint it turquoise -- Shell game -- This song & dance is dedicated to... -- Mullosks at the gate -- Invasion of the body surfers -- Leaning into it -- Return of the creature -- Float switch -- Water & power -- Bring me the head of Eddie Vedder -- Shipped by mule from Slovakia -- Burnt orange & compensatory -- Welcome to paradise -- Vapor eyes -- With no purpose other than to prevail -- Standing on the nose in a stylish manner -- World domination on $3 a day -- On the eve of the year of the green wood horse -- Love could be another way to say it -- Seahorses -- Drawn blank -- Hart Crane sleeps with the fishes -- The shining -- Mark it zero -- Sand in the grooves -- How the Mayans invented television -- The B-side of a once & future hashback -- Spanish word -- Find me a golden street -- Stirring up the shadows -- All debts real & imagined -- A surfboard in every refrigerator -- You don't know what love is -- To Our Lady of Wet Sand ... -- February 34th -- Way down below -- Selling books for drugs -- Primer gray tikis in the mist -- Rust never sleeps -- On the Use of symbolism... -- Considering the heart as a flotation device -- Valvoline -- Guided by voices -- Long story short -- The wrong goodbye -- Hula doll in a helium hat

ISBN

9781937027803

OCLC

• 958659994
• SCSB-11446243

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library