Fictions from the Self - Softcover

Burkard, Michael

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393305686 ISBN 13: 9780393305685

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1989

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Poems explore a variety of themes including love, time, and loneliness

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83 Grade School Children
9/5/81
Amnesia
As The Five
At That River
At The God Hour
The Autobiography Of A Suicide
The Autobiography Of Talullah Bankhead
Beautiful Hand
Beyond The Rain
The Bicycle
The Blossoms
Breathless Storm
The Brothers
Candle Of The Poor
Cast Any Shadow
Child At Anchor
Directly In Shadow
Don't Believe In The Death Anymore
Eating On A Starlit Porch
Eerie
Enigma
Exit Or Death %fallen Snow
Far Sight
The Fellatio House
Fictions From The Self
A Fire In The Alphabet
For Him
Four In A Field
The Gambler
Gin. White Out
Guatemala
Hawkins Falls
The Hour Hand
I Can Tell You I Was Very Sad
I Entered A House
I Wanted To Love Those
In The Rain, In The Odd City
Inside A Clock
Ivan Akaky (the Crossing Of Two Stories)
The Laundry Worker
Like A Receipt
Little Final Sunlight
Love's Tongue
The Loved One
The Man I Heard Of
The Man Of Forgiveness
The Moment Of Memory
Mood Indigo
Mr. Hook
Murnau
My Cobbler
My Little Black View
My Sister Is Not A Dollar
Mysteries
The Night Is A Sea
No
North And South
Old Ones
On A Train Approaching Midnight
One Day
Onyx
Picture With No Past To It
Poem Against Domination
River Sister
Sea And Pine And Storm
Secret Warning
Sequence Of The Horses
A Series Of Judgments
Series Of Photographs (the Genius)
Shadow From Breathing
The Shadows Are Ripe
The Sick One
A Small Closed Room
The Song Is Passing Like A Wave
Stoney Lonesome
The Story Of Marie
Strangely Insane
A Stranger Leaves Me
A Study In Scarlet
There Is No Night
Think To Yourself
The Three Of Us Stones
The Time
To J
To K. And S
To Rose
Too Many Drops
When The Sun Rises
White Envelope On Black Sweater
Woman On A Train (le Mistral)
The World At Dusk
Yellow Evening
Zane Grey
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From Library Journal:

Burkard is a poet of such stunning originality that even the most jaded reader will keep turning the pages of this book. A visionary who sees a "cheap berry of a moon" while seeking the "telephone book of the present," he explores the delicate architecture of the Self, an interior world of dreams, amnesia, and multiple personalities. Throughout, one hears faint echoes of John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, and Norman Dubie, but Burkard's unpredictable voice predominates: "The man with clocks/ is my amnesia/ is a hatchet in/ a bowl of milk. . . ." Even his titles are unforgettable: "My Sister Is Not a Dollar." With its penetrating insights and utterly distinctive style, this is a unique and important book. Essential for all serious poetry collections.Daniel L. Guillory, Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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