Kimonos in the Closet

David Shumate

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780822979166
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

"These are enormously arresting, odd, wryly humorous, gripping poems. And the variety of subject matter is astounding. I don't know when I've enjoyed reading a book so much."—David Budbill

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• My Desk Sets Sail
• The Art of the Moors
• Chagall's Blue Horse
• Curry
• Mangos
• Octopus Stuck Between My Teeth
• Lincoln
• Chumming Around with Hemingway
• The Many Offspring of Genghis Khan
• Kimonos in the Closet
• Talking to the Woman in the Yellow Kimono
• Rainfall
• Waking Up as a Buddhist
• My Buddhist Lessons
• Shakespeare in the Morning
• Talking Animals
• Bringing Things Back from the Woods
• Animal Souls
• The Immigrant's First Day at School
• The Races of Man
• The Old Teacher
• Troy
• The Man Who Made the Minotaur Up
• Those Days in Eden
• If You Hire a Poet to Draw a Map
• Route 66
• In the Company of Bedouins
• A Thousand Steeples
• The Kind of Sleep You Can Only Get in Church
• Upon Learning Disturbing Facts Concerning the Last Supper
• An Acre
• Amish
• Rural Aria
• Broom
• Hummingbirds
• The Meek
• The Lost Arts
• Rain Dance
• Republic of Umbrellas
• Taking the Psychological Test
• When a Fool Reaches Maturity
• A Good Idea
• Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
• The Landscape Paintings of Cheap Motels
• In the Abstract
• The Acres of the Moon
• An Inventory of Moons
• How to Speak to the Senile
• Between Dogs
• The Tang Dynasty
• Moving Away from Home
• Surgery
• The Executioner
• After My Beheading
• All the Dead
• Getting Outfitted for a Casket
• Widow
• The Soldier's Hundredth Birthday Cake
• The Last Nazi
• A Hundred Years from Now
• Acknowledgments