Nouns & Verbs by McGrath, Campbell -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Publisher’s Note Dedication Contents Preface 1. New Poems

Saying No Pentatina for Five Vowels A Greeting on the Trail My Music Birds and Trees Four Love Poems Andromeda My Sadness Patrimony Reading Emily Dickinson at Jiffy Lube Saying Goodbye to Paul Walker Cryptozoology Another Night at Lester’s Sleepwork The Red Dragonfly: After Shiki Four Elegies My Moods Tools Words Two Nocturnes My Estate Releasing the Sherpas

2. Poems

The Human Heart The Golden Angel Pancake House The Orange Sugar or Blood Capitalist Poem #5 Sunrise and Moonfall, Rosarito Beach Night Travelers Sleep Where the Water Runs Down Books Late Spring Spicer Invitations Emily and Walt Florida California Love Song Angels and the Bars of Manhattan Ode to a Can of Schaefer Beer Poetry and the World Girl with Blue Plastic Radio Wheel of Fire, the Mojave Consciousness Smokestacks, Chicago The Burning Ship The Future The Zebra Longwing Nights on Planet Earth

3. Prose Poems

Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas Plums Rifle, Colorado West Virginia Langdon, North Dakota Delphos, Ohio A Dove The Leatherback Squid Praia dos Orixás Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys Philadelphia Tabernacle, New Jersey Memphis Baker, California North Carolina Manitoba Rice & Beans American Noise Capitalist Poem #25 Krome Avenue (January 17) The Prose Poem Dahlias The Custodian The Gulf The Wreck Silt, Colorado Dawn

4. An Odyssey of Appetite

The Genius of Industry Almond Blossoms, Rock and Roll, the Past Seen as Burning Fields Commodity Fetishism in the White City Benediction for the Savior of Orlando Nagasaki, Uncle Walt, the Eschatology of America’s Century Guns N’ Roses September 11 Shopping for Pomegranates at Wal-Mart on New Year’s Day

5. Poems

Woe The Key Lime Vice President of Pants Wild Thing Poem That Needs No Introduction Poetry and Fiction Hemingway Dines on Boiled Shrimp and Beer Maizel at Shorty’s in Kendall What They Ate Capitalist Poem #36 Ode to Bureaucrats Because This Is Florida Villanelle James Wright, Richard Hugo, the Vanishing Forests of the Pacific Northwest Allen Ginsberg Pax Atomica Triptych Capitalist Poem #57 The Manatee Storm Valediction Rock Falls, Illinois The Fly Zeugma Egyptology The Toad Shrimp Boats, Biloxi Then Luxury Campbell McGrath

Acknowledgments About the Author Also by Campbell McGrath Copyright About the Publisher

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