High water mark : prose poems

High water mark : prose poems / David Shumate.

Everyday mindreading, a house full of Buddhas, and the papaya scent of the soul. An interview with Custer at a place of his choosing, "probably a steakhouse." The ability of dogs to smell the uncool. Hitler's barber imagines what might have been if only he'd leaned his weight int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shumate, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2004]
Series:Pitt poetry series.
Subjects:
Prose poems, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
Prose poems, American
prose poems.
Prose poems
Prose poems.
Poèmes en prose.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Part I
  • The Rain
  • The Polka-Dot Shirt
  • The Japanese Rooms
  • How to Sit in a Café
  • Prescription for Insomniacs
  • What Hemingway Learned from Cézanne
  • The Institute of Cool
  • A Nazi in Retirement
  • The Blue Period
  • Lifesaving
  • Part II
  • Coronado Rises in the Stirrups
  • All Seas Belong to Neruda
  • Hitlerâ€?s Barber
  • Ferlinghettiâ€?s Ears
  • Custer
  • Three Kings
  • With Fitzgerald along the CÃ?te dâ€?Azur
  • Mornings with Freud
  • The Psychic Geography of Atlantis
  • III
  • Household Buddhas
  • A Saint for YouThe Shape of the Human Soul
  • Infant
  • Teaching a Child the Art of Confession
  • The Machinery of the Soul
  • Martyr
  • The Wasted Day
  • On Finding a Landscape I Painted as a Child
  • The Buddha of Arithmetic
  • IV
  • Country Music
  • Passing Through a Small Town
  • Tornado
  • The American Dream
  • Bomb Shelter
  • Shooting the Horse
  • Tabloid Headlines
  • Critic
  • A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
  • Reading to the Blind Man
  • May I Interest You?
  • Accordion Lessons
  • The Id
  • Testicles
  • V
  • Afternoon Nap
  • VisitationGraveyard
  • The Ambassador of the Dead
  • The Art of Forgetting
  • Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night
  • The Slaves of My Ancestors
  • Armor
  • The Funeral of the Moon
  • Warehouse
  • Old Age
  • Mushrooms
  • High Water Mark
  • The Immortal
  • Acknowledgments

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