8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; 1984 Persea Books. Trade size paperback in matte cream card stock covers with pictorial title design in red and black. 1st paperback edition. Feels and appears unread with just trace shelf evience to externals and a hint of toning to spine. VG++ to NF.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Maximum Security Ward and Other Poems

Publisher

Persea Books

Publication Date

1984

Language

English

ISBN 10

0892550805

ISBN 13

9780892550807

Binding

Paperback

Edition

First Paperback Edition.

Condition

Very Good+

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Literature: Poetry

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Synopsis

Extended poetic work captures the intensity, nuances, and agony of human suffering

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..for Approximately The Same Reason Why A Man Can't Marry...
All The King's Horses, Fr. Graffiti
Anabasis
And It Came To Pass
And The Evening And The Morning...
And The Veil Of The Temple Was Rent
And They Said, Go To, Let Us Build Us A City, Fr. Graffiti
Apocalypse
The Archangel Michael, Or A Reasonable Facsimile Thereof...
Arnaut Daniel (circa 1190)
Boul' Miche, May 1968
The Brocken
By The Watch
Cadenza
Caduceus
The Christoi
The Clown As A Fox, Fr. Graffiti
The Clown Painting A Self-portrait, Fr. Graffiti
The Clown's Report On Satyrs, Fr. Graffiti
The Clown: A Natural History, Fr. Graffiti
The Clown: He Dances In The Clearing By Night
The Clown: Hurrah For The Petrified Forest, Fr. Graffiti
The Cube As A Wilted Prism
Dead, How To Become It, Fr. Graffiti
Death With Pants On
Desnos
Dialogue With The Sphinx, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Don't And Never Did
The Dutch Head Nurse
Elegy For Melusine From The Intensive Care Ward
Europa, Fr. Graffiti
Exegesis, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Ezra Pound In Paris And Elsewhere, Fr. Graffiti
Fiercer Than Evening Wolves
The Flute
Footsteps In The Stairway, Fr. Graffiti
Fragment Of A Travelogue, Fr. Graffiti
Gemini, Fr. Graffiti
Good Friday
High Abyss
Homage To Paul Delvaux (1897- ), Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Icarus Agonistes
Icarus To Eve
Inventory
It Happens, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Judgment Day
Keepsake, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
L'enfance De La Sirene, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Laura, Age Eight, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Logos, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Loin De Moi...
The Magi, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
The Making Of The Bear
Masque For Luis Bunuel
Mermaids In Maine, Fr. Graffiti
Mongoose, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Montparnasse
Mousike, Fr. Graffiti
The Neutrino And Mr. Brinsley, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Noel Tragique, Fr. Graffiti
Not Dawn Yet
On A Bare Mountain In The Cevennes, Fr. Graffiti
On Seeing The First Woodchuck..., Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
The Oracles
Pattern For A Brocade Shroud:... Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
People Walking
The Poet To His Mind, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Polar Bear
Postlude: For Goya, Fr. Graffiti
Postscript In Another Hand, Fr. Graffiti
The Prayers
Recipe And Introduction, Fr. Graffiti
Recital For Oboes And A Kettledrum, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
The Red Virgin
Red-headed Intern, Taking Notes
The Ruts, Fr. Graffiti
Scene: A Bedside In The Witches' Kitchen
Scherzo For A Dirge, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Side By Side
Some Of Us Must Remember, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Street Scene:on Themes By Edvard Munch,fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Suite By The River, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
The Surf
There Are Those
They Danced, Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
This Stealth
To And On Other Intellectual Poets..., Fr. Graffiti
Today Is Friday
Variations On A Threne..., Fr. Asbestos Phoenix
Via Crucis
Visse, Scrisse, Amo.
Yorick
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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