Book
Tropic of squalor : poems
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Physical Description
xiv, 75 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Contents
- The organ donor's driver's license has a black check
- Loony bin basketball
- The burning girl
- Illiterate progenitor
- Read these
- Discomfort food for the unwhole
- The devil's delusion
- Dear Oklahoma teen smashed on Reservation Road
- The age of criticism
- Exurbia
- Lord, I was faithless
- Suicide's note: An annual
- The awakening (after Milosz)
- How God speaks
- Face down
- The child abuse tour
- The less Holy Bible : I. Genesis: Animal Planet
- II. Numbers: Poison Profundis
- III. Leviticus: In dreams begin responsibilities
- IV. Exodus: Bolt Action
- V. Chronicles: Hell's Kitchen
- VI. Wisdom: The voice of God
- VII. Judges: Awe and Disorder
- VIII. Obadiah: A perfect mess
- IX. Ecclesiastes: Amok run
- X. Psalms: Carnegie Hall rush seats
- XI. Hey Jude: Prophetic Interlude by the ghost of Walt Whitman
- XII. Malachi: Truckload of Nails
- XIII. Hebrews: The Mogul
- XIV. Lamentations: The more deceived
- XV. Kings: The obscenity prayer
- XVI. Marks and Johns: The Blessed Mother complains to the Lord her God about the abundance of brokenness she receives
- XVII. Acts: The Like button
- XVIII. Petering: Recuperation from the sunk love under the Aegis of Christ and Isaac Babel
- XIX. Philemon: Notes from the Underground
- XX. Revelation: The messenger
- Coda toward the New New Covenant: Death sentence.