The Blue Buick by Fairchild, B.H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Epigraph Contents From The Arrival of the Future (1985)

The Woman at the Laundromat Crying “Mercy” The Men The Robinson Hotel (from Kansas Avenue) Flight Angels Groceries Night Shift Hair To My Friend The Limits of My Language: English 85B Late Game

From Local Knowledge (1991)

In Czechoslovakia In a Café near Tuba City, Arizona, Beating My Head against a Cigarette Machine Language, Nonsense, Desire There is Constant Movement in My Head Maize In Another Life I Encounter My Father The Machinist, Teaching His Daughter to Play the Piano The Doppler Effect Toban’s Precision Machine Shop Speaking the Names Local Knowledge Kansas The Soliloquy of the Appliance Repairman Work L’Attente

From The Art of the Lathe (1998)

Beauty The Invisible Man All the People in Hopper’s Paintings The Book of Hours Cigarettes The Himalayas Body and Soul Airlifting Horses Old Men Playing Basketball Old Women Song Thermoregulation in Winter Moths Keats The Ascension of Ira Campbell The Dumka A Model of Downtown Los Angeles, 1940 The Children Little Boy The Welder, Visited by the Angel of Mercy The Death of a Small Town The Art of the Lathe

From Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2003)

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest Moses Yellowhorse Is Throwing Water Balloons from the Hotel Roosevelt Mrs. Hill The Potato Eaters Hearing Parker the First Time Delivering Eggs to the Girls’ Dorm Rave On A Photograph of the Titanic Blood Rain The Death of a Psychic Luck A Roman Grave On the Passing of Jesus Freaks from the College Classroom Brazil Weather Report The Second Annual Wizard of Oz Reunion in Liberal, Kansas The Blue Buick Mlle Pym (from Three Poems by Roy Eldridge Garcia) The Deposition A Starlit Night Motion Sickness A Wall Map of Paris At the Café de Flore At Omaha Beach The Memory Palace

From Usher (2009)

The Gray Man Trilogy

Frieda Pushnik Usher Hart Crane in Havana

Key to “Hart Crane in Havana”

The Cottonwood Lounge Les Passages Wittgenstein, Dying The Barber Hume Gödel from The Beauty of Abandoned Towns

1. The Beauty of Abandoned Towns 2. Bloom School 3. The Teller 4. Wheat

Madonna and Child, Perryton, Texas, 1967 What He Said from Five Prose Poems from the Journals of Roy Eldridge Garcia

Cendrars Piano

Moth Triptych: Nathan Gold, Maria, On the Waterfront

Nathan Gold Maria On the Waterfront

New Poems

The Story Red Snow The Left Fielder’s Sestina Betty The Game The Student Assistant History: Four Poems 1. Dust Storm, No Man’s Land, 1952 2. Shakespeare in the Park, 9/11/2011 3. Economics 4. Alzheimer’s Three Girls Tossing Rings The Death of a Gerbil Pale from the Hand of the Child That Holds It Three Prose Poems from the Journals of Roy Eldridge Garcia An Attaché Case The End of Art The Language of the Future Language Abandoned Grain Elevator The Men on Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, 1975 Getting Fired On the Death of Small Towns: A Found Poem Leaving Swan Lake Obed Theodore Swearingen, 1883–1967 Rothko A House Poem (from Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest) Poem

Notes Acknowledgments Praise for the Work of B. H. Fairchild Also by B. H. Fairchild Praise for THE BLUE BUICK and the Work of B. H. Fairchild Copyright