CONTENTS

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. New Poems
7. Ode to Forgetting the Year
8. How to Pray
9. Ode to Knots, Noise, Waking Up at Three, and Falling Asleep Reading to My Id
10. Ode to Skimpy Clothes and August in the Deep South
11. Ode to Lil’ Kim in Florence
12. Reading Can Kill You
13. 17 Dollars
14. Ode to Red and Speedy
15. Ode to the Messiah, Thai Horror Movies, and Everything I Can't Believe
16. Ode to the Triple
17. Ode to Wasting Time and Drawing Donatello's David
18. On the Street of Divine Love
19. Ode to Augurs, Ogres, Acorns, and Two or Three Things That Have Been Eating at My Heart Like a Wolverine in a Time of Famine
20. I'm Making Walt Whitman Soup
21. Questions for My Body
22. Delirium (1995)
23. The Language of Bees
24. Betrothal in B Minor
25. Ova
26. Toska
27. St. Anthony of the Floating Larynx
28. St. Clare's Underwear
29. Nose
30. Delirium
31. The Alphabet of Desire (1999)
32. The Word
33. Thinking of Galileo
34. The Dream of the Red Drink
35. Achtung, My Princess, Good Night
36. Hatred
37. So Long, Roy
38. Trigger Tries to Explain
39. Ode on My Wasted Youth
40. Ode to Untoward Dreams
41. Ode to the Lost Luggage Warehouse at the Rome Airport
42. Babel (2004)
43. My Translation
44. The Mockingbird on the Buddha
45. Idolatry
46. O Deceitful Tongue
47. Vex Me
48. Fang
49. Thus Spake the Mockingbird
50. Ode to American English
51. Ode to Hardware Stores
52. Ode to Barbecue
53. Ode on Satan's Power
54. Ode to My 1977 Toyota
55. Ode on My Mother's Handwriting
56. All-Night Lingo Tango (2009)
57. Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties That Plague Me Like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory
58. Working at Pam-Pam's
59. from 9 Sonnets from the Psalms
60. Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris
61. Mambo Cadillac
62. from Lingo Sonnets
63. Ode on Dictionaries
64. Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego
65. Ode on the Letter M
66. Acknowledgments

New Poems

Ode to Forgetting the Year

How to Pray

Ode to Knots, Noise, Waking Up at Three, and Falling Asleep Reading to My Id

Ode to Skimpy Clothes and August in the Deep South

Ode to Lil’ Kim in Florence

Reading Can Kill You

17 Dollars

Ode to Red and Speedy

Ode to the Messiah, Thai Horror Movies, and Everything I Can't Believe

Ode to the Triple

Ode to Wasting Time and Drawing Donatello's David

On the Street of Divine Love

Ode to Augurs, Ogres, Acorns, and Two or Three Things That Have Been Eating at My Heart Like a Wolverine in a Time of Famine

I'm Making Walt Whitman Soup

Questions for My Body

Delirium (1995)

The Language of Bees

Betrothal in B Minor

Ova

Toska

St. Anthony of the Floating Larynx

St. Clare's Underwear

Nose

Delirium

The Alphabet of Desire (1999)

The Word

Thinking of Galileo

The Dream of the Red Drink

Achtung, My Princess, Good Night

Hatred

So Long, Roy

Trigger Tries to Explain

Ode on My Wasted Youth

Ode to Untoward Dreams

Ode to the Lost Luggage Warehouse at the Rome Airport

Babel (2004)

My Translation

The Mockingbird on the Buddha

Idolatry

O Deceitful Tongue

Vex Me

Fang

Thus Spake the Mockingbird

Ode to American English

Ode to Hardware Stores

Ode to Barbecue

Ode on Satan's Power

Ode to My 1977 Toyota

Ode on My Mother's Handwriting

All-Night Lingo Tango (2009)

Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties That Plague Me Like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory

Working at Pam-Pam's

from 9 Sonnets from the Psalms

Ode to Airheads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris

Mambo Cadillac

from Lingo Sonnets

Ode on Dictionaries

Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego

Ode on the Letter M

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1. Cover Page
2. Begin Reading
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgements