XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience - Softcover

Rafaela, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964419661 ISBN 13: 9780964419667

Publisher: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

A poetic documentary, the title reflects the biological marker of maleness, the "XY" chromosome. This poetic documentary of 170 poems celebrates the complex lives of men at the end of the twentieth century. The poets, male and female, young and old, straight, gay, adopted personas, and ethnically diverse have written about masculine myths, mysteries, and every day life with honesty and tenderness.

The book is organized into files representing facets of the male experience: work, love, fathers and sons, outdoor life, the body, risk taking, archetypes, elegies and what men talk about. The editors note that the book is dedicated to the men in their lives who challenged us, cherished us, infuriated us and been our allies.

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Review:

...balanced, sensitive and insightful treatment of the male experience. -- Journal of Family Life, Nov, 1997

A Fourteen Year Old Boy Walks Into The Blizzard by Jackson Ahrens
To Be A Boy by Jackson Ahrens
Labor Day - Up On The Roof by Phillip Austin
A Note From Home by Phillip Austin
Box Set by John Azrak
Sonnet; There Are No Baseballs by Stephen Bankhead
One Summer Dusk by Mary Barrett
Reflex-tions by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran
Alfresco by John Briggs
Preen by Christophe Brunski
How Can I Follow My Beautiful Dreams? by J. B. Bryan
Pouring Concrete In 100 Temperatures by Paul Bufis
Replacing A Piece Of Sidewalk by Paul Bufis
Elegia A Mi Padre by Alfredo Cardona Pena
As It Was In The Beginning by Thomas Centolella
Task by Thomas Centolella
A Warrior Of The Times by Ronald Chalmers
Construction Lingo by Lorraine Lener Ciancio
Night Together by Vivina Ciolli
Daredevil by Kirby Congdon
The 1937 Dodge by Geraldine Connolly
How Do You Want Tom Die? by David Cooper
Hunt At Langley by David Cooper
Sliver by Sheila Cowing
Tidewater Specialties by Sheila Cowing
History Lesson by Brian Daldorph
How We Got The Hole In Our Roof by Julia M. Deisler
Prick by Delia Desmond
Roses by Catherine Doty
Drywall by Paula Farkas
The Boys Have Guns by Charles Fishman
Cape Hatteras: 1939 by Charles Fishman
Fathers Are Not Stones by Charles Fishman
In This Poem I Am Ten Years Old by Charles Fishman
Quiet, It's Too Quiet by Charles Fishman
Red Lights by Charles Fishman
Dad by Thomas Fitzsimmons
It's Hard To Hug A Pregnant Woman by Al Gabor
Rifle Rack by John Francis Gilgun
Work by John Francis Gilgun
Seeing Bear by Art Goodtimes
Skinning The Elk by Art Goodtimes
Push Ups by H. Palmer Hall
The Volleyball Plalyer by H. Palmer Hall
Father To Son by Nancy Peters Hastings
Icarus by Christine E. Hemp
Pulling Peter Back by Christine E. Hemp
Where Water Has Been Recently by Judyth Hill
Kiddush On The Turnpike by Shel Horowitz
Old Men And Wives by Phyllis Hotch
Internal Coombustion by Joseph G., Jr. Hutchison
Pneumonia by Joseph G., Jr. Hutchison
Fourteen Months, A Man With Dexterity by Elizabeth Jacobson
I Never Wanted On For Sex by Elizabeth Jacobson
Cowboy Poem by Michael L. Johnson
My Son's Puberty by Michael L. Johnson
The Summer Of Ninety-three by Michael L. Johnson
Testosterone by Michael L. Johnson
Snapshots by Lawrence M. Jones
Mathew by James Kates
Hair-pulling Fight by Troxey Kemper
Building by Roger Kirschbaum
Peeing by Roger Kirschbaum
How Men Fear Women by Richard Lehnert
On Meeting A Former Lover And Her Newborn Son by Richard Lehnert
A Place Of Sense by Richard Lehnert
The Washing Of The Feet by Richard Lehnert
Marathon by Nathalie K. Lobe
Father's Curse by Eric Lochridge
Theory Of Tears by Joan Logghe
Smugglin' Blues: 2 by Anne Macnaughton
Smugglin' Blues: 5 by Anne Macnaughton
Smugglin' Blues: 9 by Anne Macnaughton
Autobiography by Ebby Malmgren
The Show Must Go On by Ebby Malmgren
Another Son by Seymour Mayne
Dog Smiles by Maggie Mckirgan
Dressing My Father by Rosemary Mclaughlin
Last Time I Remember Bob Well by Rosemary Mclaughlin
Baby Boy Bath Ritual by James G. Merrill
The Kissing Man by Elmo Mondragon
Marriage Proposal by Elmo Mondragon
The Sheepherder To His Wife by Elmo Mondragon
Why I Am A Poet by Elmo Mondragon
Paternal Borders by Mary Alice Morris
River Story by Mary Alice Morris
A Taste Of My Father by Joe Mowrey
Drunk, With Roses by Tim Myers
Lovers by Tim Myers
Shoebox House by Tim Myers
Baseball by Jim Nason
The Comb by Jim Nason
Depends by Jim Nason
We Are More Boys Than Men by Jim Nason
For Erin by John Oughton
Growing Up A Block Away From John Mccrae by John Oughton
William Tell's Son Speaks by John Oughton
Fishing At Nightfall by Todd Palmer
Gents by Alan Michael Parker
Anniversary Of The War's End by Binnie Pasquier
Stripper At The Funeral by Lee Patton
Brett's Game by Roger Carl Pfingston
Emmett's Decision by Roger Carl Pfingston
The Kitchen Witch by Karen Piconi
Gary's Way by Kenneth George Pobo
My Husband's Beard by Judith Rafaela
Rio Pacuare, Costa Rica by Judith Rafaela
What A Leaky Bathroom Did by Burt Rashbaum
City Of Men by Donald Rawley
One Hundred Miles From Nowhere by Donald Rawley
Air by Stella Reed
Since Daniel by Stella Reed
The German Officer Inherits by Elisavietta Ritchie
Icarus, Manhattan by Elisavietta Ritchie
What Men Talk About by Charles Rossiter
Stricken by Michael Ryan
More Than One Buddha by Miriam Sagan
Chuco Pachuco Carnal by Trinidad, Jr. Sanchez
Dreaming Of Montana by Daniel Sargent
Sliabh, Loch, Agus Fear Ce Taraing Anail Iad by Daniel Sargent
Familiarity by Lawrence Schimel
Getting Answers by Deloris Selinsky
At The Railyards by Kaylock Sellers
Brother by Kaylock Sellers
Elvis And The Birdhouses by April Selley
The Carpenter by Jim Simmerman
Girl Crazy by Gerard Donnelley Smith
Grammar by Gerard Donnelley Smith
Leukemia by Gerard Donnelley Smith
The Proper Rhythm by Gerard Donnelley Smith
Balding by J. D. Smith
Nostradamus Of The Machine Shop by Joan Jobe Smith
Day Timer by Michael S. Smith
Cattails by Thomas R. Smith
The Masculine Art Of Longing by Thomas R. Smith
The Muskie by Thomas R. Smith
A Short History Of Sex by Gary Soto
Cream They Say by Jeremy Spears
For Women Who Wonder At The Misanthropy Of Certain Men by Donna Spector
My Father's Breakfast by Donna Spector
Why Women Open The Door by Donna Spector
Alone In The House by Hans J. Stahlschmidt
Cranes Mate For Life by Hans J. Stahlschmidt
German Childhood by Hans J. Stahlschmidt
Meeting The Buddha Near Bangalore by Hans J. Stahlschmidt
Male Gorillas by Ruth Stone
The Sperm And The Egg by Ruth Stone
The Amn by Lisa C. Taylor
Tasting Fire by Mark Thoma
This Man by Madeline Tiger
Our First Fight by Fred Voss
Sons by Burton D. Wasserman
Sweating It by Burton D. Wasserman
Joyful Interpenetration by Daniel Williams
Pluto To Persephone by Daniel Williams
Claiming Kin by Christopher Woods
Summit by Joanne Young
A Trim by Joanne Young
The Map Of A Catcher by Frank Van Zant
My Baby Going Upstream by Frank Van Zant
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Now my favorite poetry collection on the shelves, XY Files leaves me envious beyond Freud's reckoning. -- Jessica English, Weekly Alibi, Aug. 1997

About this edition

• Publisher: Sherman Asher Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0964419661
• ISBN 13: 9780964419667
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100