Title: The little book of guesses : poems /
Authors: Gallaher, John, 1965-; Four Way Books
Publisher: Four Way Books,
Year: 2007
Subjects: American poetry.; American poetry
Abstract: In these poems of houses and yards and little roads, things are quietly disintegrating. And the men and women are always rushing toward a future, where the sky is gray and voices are going too fast to understand, but, if you look for it, a redbud is shimmering on the lawn. --Publisher's review by Henri Cole.
Contents: In the little book of guesses -- You & your lover embodying silence -- Landscape with suicides -- Valentino ponders the ineffable -- Measure twice, cut once -- Daily in the birds of the sky -- The other confession -- Only lovers & believers, please -- Statements as questions -- On your brilliant escape -- How to haunt the living -- Campfire girls at Sunrise Hill -- Anecdote of the field -- Pretty, popular, & without secrets -- Our recent stay in thataway -- Thicker -- Sunshine for no regrets & no residue -- My life in alcohol -- For your married lover -- Opportunities for seeing things -- & the quonset hut as well -- Pockets of resistance -- A guidebook to everybody's business -- Cocktails at six, & it's like we won -- In the New Age -- Happy birthday to everyone -- In the book of the disappearing book -- A pocket guide to some foreign country -- The war president's afternoon tea -- Bomb went off -- The cloud from the machine -- Hot house Hottentots -- Cursing the darkness & what's it to you -- Ephemerana -- The perspective of disappearance -- A guidebook to the afterlife -- A guidebook to when things were better -- A moment in the market of moments -- Concerning our stunt doubles -- All these effortless afternoons -- In the book of nothing -- General conversation & the like -- Ghost children -- No encores. No autographs. -- There is no mercy in heaven -- When I say world I mean please -- Lost in our creations, we no longer believe in falling.