Sufficiency of the actual : poems / by Kevin Stein.
"In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Series: | Illinois poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
- One. Autumnal
- Sufficiency of the actual
- On being a Nielsen family
- (My) history of parsley
- September falls in no river's
- News crawl
- Mars' karmam
- Lives of the painters
- Middle-aged Adam's and Eve's bedside tables
- Ike's caddy
- Talk radio
- Blue Tuesday
- In human hands
- Two. To balance
- Postcard to Henry James
- Capitalism
- A day's work
- Song of the night shift foreman
- On thinking of the second time they shoveled up Mr. Lincoln
- Pre-bowdlerized version of poem for a fourth-grade Illinois history test
- CR5115STD responds to the national consumer survey
- Post-feminish machismo
- Poet's genie
- Parakeet and dark star
- Mowing the lawn
- Three. Appetites earthly and other
- Aesthetics of desire
- Natural selection
- Religion
- Upon the porch swing's time machine
- To my hair
- Lovesong ending with ()
- At hte mountain man rendezvous in Fairplay, Colorado
- Inverse aviary, in which birds talk
- On reading Prince Valiand in the Sunday comics
- Slippery slope
- Colonialism
- Parable of the American stag party
- Arts of joy
- Youthful indiscretions.