Research Catalog

Title

Real things : an anthology of popular culture in American poetry / edited by Jim Elledge and Susan Swartwout.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elledge, Jim, 1950-
• Swartwout, Susan.

Description

xxii, 336 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Popular culture > United States > Poetry
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry
• Popular culture
• United States

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxii) and indexes.

Contents

Hygiene -- Mid-Year Report: For Haruko -- Pay Up or Else -- Why We Bombed Haiphong -- The Shower Scene in Psycho -- No Superman Was Not the Only One -- note passed to superman -- Superman Is Dead -- If I Were Rita Hayworth -- Famous Women -- Claudette Colbert -- Up -- The Gypsy Teaches Her Grandchild Wolfen Ways -- Frankenstein -- The Bride of Frankenstein -- St. Clare's Underwear -- Kong Breaks a Leg at the William Morris Agency -- Francis Ford Coppola and Anthropologist Interpreter Teaching Gartewienna Tribesmen to Sing "Light My Fire " Philippine Jungle 1978 -- Suzie Wong Doesn't Live Here -- Suzy Wong's Been Dead a Long Time -- Soap Bubbles -- Scene from the Movie GIANT -- James Dean & the Pig -- Mom Did Marilyn Dad Did Fred -- The Death of Marilyn Monroe -- [I have come to claim / Marilyn Monroe's body] -- Marilyn Monroe Indian -- November 22 1983 -- Jackie in Cambodia -- from "Some Adventures of John Kennedy Jr." -- The Man I Love and I Have a Typical Evening the Night Richard M. Nixon Dies -- The End of the Reagan Era -- Viet Kong -- Blue Suede Shoes -- A Story of Stonewall -- Lonely Tylenol -- An Anointing -- The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke -- Coca-Cola and Coco Frio -- No Deposit No Returns -- Why Don't I? -- Corpse and Mirror (III) -- Barbie Says Math Is Hard -- Barbie's Molester -- Mannequins -- Toys -- My Father's Pornography -- After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed -- Breasts -- A Personal History of Hands -- The True Story of Snow White -- Rapunzel -- Hazel Tells LaVerne -- Jack Afterwards -- Peter Pan in North America -- Self Portrait as Nancy Drew Girl Sleuth -- Rumpelstiltskin Convention -- Sonny's Purple Heart -- One Meat Ball -- The Day They Eulogized Mahalia -- Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual -- Echoes -- Liberace -- We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future -- Mythology -- The Black Back-Ups -- Motown / Smokey Robinson -- Dizzy Girls in the Sixties -- Woodstock -- The First Rock and Roll Song of 1970 -- "It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It": The Fall of Saigon 1975 -- Blonde Ambition -- Punk Pantoum -- Teaching Poetry at Votech High Santa Fe the Week John Lennon Was Shot -- Never Land -- The Birth of Rhythm and Blues -- Billie in Silk -- Oshi -- Homage to Elvis Homage to the Fathers -- El Elvis -- Come Back Elvis Come Back to Holyoke -- Soap -- from Ephemera Today on "All My Children" -- In the Days of Rin-Tin-Tin -- Funicello at 50 -- When I Think About America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramden) -- David Cassidy Then -- Gilligan's Island -- Postmodern: A Definition -- TV in Black and White -- Tv -- The Talk Show -- Misguided Angels -- Ghosts -- The Apparition -- Jeane Dixon's America -- Tabloid News -- A Supermarket in California -- Shopping for Midnight -- The Man I Love and I Shop at Jewel -- Mail Order Catalogs -- Catalogue Army -- Tradition and Change -- For Emily (Dickinson) -- Thrift Shop Ladies -- The Novelty Shop -- Shoplifting -- Shoplifters -- Whitman -- The Decisions -- Siamese Twins in Love -- My Son Shows Me a Photograph of Michael Jordan Performing a Slam Dunk -- Mantle -- The Incognito Lounge -- Romance -- Days of 1981 -- 8-Ball at the Twilite -- Ted's Bar and Grill -- A Story Often Told in Bars: The Reader's Digest Version -- The Stripper -- The Dancing Sunshine Lounge -- Dreaming at the Rexall Drug -- Waitress -- On the Bearing of Waitresses -- The All-Night Diner -- Lunch with Girl Scouts -- Vanna White's Bread Pudding -- 'mericn fst fd -- Short-Order Cook -- Arrowhead Christian Center and No-Smoking Luncheonette -- By-products -- Why That's Bob Hope -- Of Time and the Line -- The Counterfeit Earth! -- Harold and Imogene -- The Motorcyclists -- Indian Car -- In the Black Camaro -- The Lady in the Pink Mustang -- Because You're American -- Take Good Care of Yourself -- Lost Parents -- Scrabble -- Off from Swing Shift -- Moon Winx Motel -- Outside Room Six -- In the Bluemist Hotel -- Transient Hotel Sky at the Hour of Sleep -- Tattoo #47 "Happy Dragon" -- Pornography Nebraska -- In a U-Haul North of Damascus -- The Man She Called Honey and Married -- After the Wedding Party -- Ikon -- Pickup.

ISBN

• 0253334349
• 9780253334343
• 0253212294
• 9780253212290

LCCN

98035879

OCLC

• ocm39539240
• 39539240
• SCSB-8784776

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library