Research Catalog

Title

Dancing on the grave of a son of a bitch.

Author

Wakoski, Diane

Publication

• Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, [1973]
• © 1973

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP
• Black Sparrow Press, publisher.

Description

137 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Wakoski, Diane
• Multiculturalism in poetry
• Poetry, Modern > 20th century
• Women's studies
• Multiculturalism > Women
• Women poets > 20th century
• women's studies

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Some Brilliant Sky -- In This Galaxy -- A Feather In Your Cap -- The Moon Is Only Aggressive When You Are There -- The Stargazer -- An Ode To My Favorite Astronomer -- In The Secret Room, East of the Sun, West of the Moon -- The Mirror of A Day Chiming Marigold -- The Sun Has an Angray Face -- Meeting An Astronomer On the Buddha's Birthday -- I Take Green Greed Onto The Freeway -- Looking For Rabbit Tracks on the Freeway -- Those Trigger Fish Again -- Fighting My Way Upstream, A Gar, A Bluefish, In My Foot -- When Black Is a Color Because It Follows A Grey Day -- The Gold Fish In the Cool Night -- The Cool Star -- For Gary, When My hands Are Over the Sun -- Sun God have Sun Spots -- What Color Is the Mustache of the Sun -- When you Throw Amber Into The Wall of The Moon -- Wolf Fire -- I Am The Daughter Of the Sun -- Counting Shooting Stars In the Eyes of an Invisible Opponent -- Trying to Read By thr Light of Shooting Stars -- Market Scene On a Half Moon Trip -- The Dream of Angling, The Dream of Cool Rain -- Exchanging A Zebra For Your Favorite Girl/Desert/Moon -- A Tiger Walks The Streets of an Old Town -- For Whitman -- Dancing on the Grave of A Son of the Bitch -- The Purple Finch Song -- A Little Mantra For Becky's Box -- Snow Chant -- A Sunset Chant -- A Chant for Hyacinths -- A Chant for the Dweller in the Desert Solitaire -- Snowman Chant -- Chant for a Sharp Knife -- Apple Chant,1 -- Apple Chant,2 -- Chants/Chance -- Buddha's Birthday -- A Long Trainride Without A Calendar Showing Buddha's Birthday -- Letter to Carol Berge On Buddha's Birthday -- Judge Not, Says The Buddha on His Birthday -- The Buddha Learns to Work A Radial Arm Saw on His Birthday -- George Washington Sends A Pair of Shoebuckles to the Buddha on His Birthday -- A Little Poem for the Calligrapher on the Buddha's Birthday -- My Aunt Ella Meets The Buddha on his Birthday -- That Delicate Displacement of Reality on the Buddha's Birthday -- Buddha HaS His Birthday in Court -- A Chain Letter for Luck on the Buddha's Birthday -- The Blue World Holds The Sun as the Rake On Buddha's Birthday -- A Message to Someone I Love on the Buddha's Birthday -- Poem for a Man Who Is Sleeping on the Buddha's Birthday -- The Buddha Runs a Race on His Birthday -- The Buddha Turns Base Metals, Flowers & Butterflies Into Gold on His Birthday -- The Buddha Meets Saturn -- Bank Statement on the Buddha's Birthday -- The Buddha Tags a Fish on His Birthday -- Wildflowers for the Buddha on His Birthday -- Poem for a Little Boy on The Buddha's Birthday -- The Buddha Empties A Volcano on His Birthday -- The Elephant & the Butterfly meet on the Buddha's Birthday -- The Diamond Merchant -- A Long Poem for Eleanor Who Collects The Blood Of Poets -- A Short Fable of Endurance and Pity -- The Owl and the Snake -- The Cat with the Broken Tail -- The Frog Who Was Born With a Wart on His Nose -- The Fable of the Fragile Butterfly.

ISBN

• 0876851804
• 9780876851807
• 0876851790
• 9780876851791

LCCN

73016395

OCLC

• ocm00714290
• 714290
• SCSB-2071445

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library