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Author:

Walthall, Hugh, 1948-2015, author.

Title:

A spell in the pokey : Hugh Walthall selected poems / edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Selva Oscura Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

103 pages ; illustrations, 23 cm

Subject:

American poetry--20th century.
American poetry--21st century.
Poetry.
Poetry.

Other Authors:

Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, editor.

Other Titles:

Poems. Selections

Contents:

A spell in the pokey. Will and testament -- Her old friend talks to Lavern -- Mr. Grover Greens defines two trains and rides one -- Incorporating in Delaware -- Straw doggerel -- A shorter treatise on policitical economy -- Dobbin to the glue factory -- Ladidah -- Hallelujah Hardesty, female artist -- What Maisie knew -- For Lisa Steinman -- Apocalypso -- From the German of Bruno Vogelgesand -- Die wahlverwandtschaften -- Poem -- L'hopital général du monde -- "...remember me to Harold Bloom..." -- After Laura Riding -- A secret communication to John Hollander employing the usual code -- An occasional apostrophe -- "New York style" -- Father William -- Hollywood party -- Chanticleer -- Otiose bones -- Peppermint schnapps -- Typing test -- Hunki-dori -- Take that. and that. and that. -- Chez Robespierre -- Spring chicken -- The hair of the dodge -- Bill Sylvester call your wife at home -- Young MacDonald -- Fascism -- Free verse -- Hobbleydehoy favored at Saratoga -- Balance of power, The -- Solving for X -- Grad school paper -- Gloria's daughter -- Love poem -- Frantic ease: an explanation -- Jack Robinson -- Museum peace -- Use the other door -- And did those feet... -- Police state -- Revodneb -- By the shores of Gitchie-Gumee -- All kidding aside -- Why my poems are hellishly good -- Mixed blessings -- Mister Cruidity -- Horse & buggy -- No more Mr. Nice Guy -- Carrion crows to Newcastle -- Princess Hubba-Hubba -- Near Swallow Falls -- Wild oats -- The pirates of perchance -- Dr. Jazz -- You judge the bees -- The inverse memories of Steamboat Jones -- Proposed renovations to paradise -- My laundry is trapped inside a crime scene. -- A golf lesson -- Dear fellow citizen of Earth: -- A spell in the pokey.

ISBN:

0988937786
9780988937789

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1050926975

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)