Regular Haunts
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Regular Haunts

New and Previous Poems

  1. 138 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Regular Haunts

New and Previous Poems

About this book

Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone.His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life. Costanzoevokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now—in the present—is forced to live with diminished experience. Hemourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be foundbut where its semblance can be endlessly marketed. Regular Haunts is a retrospective collection of Costanzo's work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.

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Information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781496205865
eBook ISBN
9781496206558
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. New Poems
  10. I. American River
  11. Arabesques and Bottle Blondes
  12. Provincetown
  13. American River
  14. Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell
  15. Deathgrass at the Wheeler Summerfest
  16. Tinnitus
  17. Memory and Loss
  18. Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo
  19. The Lives They Lead
  20. Stories
  21. Minnie’s Death
  22. II. Regular Haunts
  23. The Big Heat
  24. Blood on the Moon
  25. Stairway to an Empty Room
  26. A Graveyard to Let
  27. Downtown
  28. The Longest Second
  29. The Out Is Death
  30. Blood of Poets
  31. City of Whispering Stone
  32. Judge Me Not
  33. The Gentle Hangman
  34. The Winter People
  35. Invitation to Violence
  36. Deadline at Dawn
  37. Havana Run
  38. Spend Game
  39. Previous Poems
  40. I. The Sacred Cows of Los Angeles
  41. The Sacred Cows of Los Angeles
  42. Snake
  43. “What Youngstown Needs Is Good Representation”
  44. Introduction of the Shopping Cart
  45. Houdini Disappearing in Philadelphia
  46. For Four Newsmen Murdered in Saigon
  47. Newlywed
  48. Badlands
  49. The Resurrection of Lake Erie
  50. Dinosaurs of the Hollywood Delta
  51. II. Living the Good Life on the San Andreas Fault
  52. Living the Good Life on the San Andreas Fault
  53. The Problems, the Models
  54. The Riot of Nickel Beer Night
  55. Manhattan As a Latin American Capital
  56. In the Aviary
  57. Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard
  58. III. At Irony’s Picnic
  59. The Rise of the Sunday School Movement
  60. Braille
  61. Grasshoppers
  62. Flagpole Sitter
  63. Seeing My Name in TV Guide
  64. Hunger
  65. A Tax Auditor for the IRS Dreams
  66. At Irony’s Picnic
  67. IV. Bournehurst-on-the-Canal
  68. Landscape with Unemployed Jockeys
  69. The Bigamist
  70. Everything You Own
  71. Stargazers
  72. Five Small Songs of America in 2076
  73. Carl Yastrzemski
  74. Vigilantes
  75. The Man Who Invented Las Vegas
  76. When Guy Lombardo Died
  77. In the Blood
  78. Bournehurst-on-the-Canal
  79. V. Washington Park
  80. Near Lacombe
  81. Building
  82. My Kindergarten Girlfriend
  83. Pastoral
  84. The Old Neighborhood
  85. Potatoes
  86. Toward San Francisco
  87. Jungles
  88. Washington Park
  89. VI. What’s Wrong with the Moon?
  90. What’s Wrong with the Moon?
  91. VII. Excavating the Ruins of Miami Beach
  92. Report from the Past
  93. The Story
  94. Excavating the Ruins of Miami Beach
  95. The Meeting
  96. About Gerald Costanzo
  97. Other Works by Gerald Costanzo
  98. Series List