Title: Waiting for the King of Spain /
Authors: Wakoski, Diane.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press,
Year: 1976
Subjects: American poetry Women authors; Women poets, American.
Contents: Beyond the trunks of the palm trees -- Precisely, not violets -- April snow -- A shipment of George Washington apples arrives ion a snow storm -- Looking for the King of Spain -- There are lions like yellow dogs -- The King of Spain eschews the freezer -- Walking on the beach at Laguna in the morning with a man who has a gold tooth -- The Laguna contract (15 July, Laguna Beach, California) -- Counting your blessings on all six fingers of your hand: a vigil -- Reminded of one of those girls I never was -- Burning my bridges behind me -- George Washington meets the King of Spain -- Gold -- Some constantly besieged castle -- Love poem to Francis X. Osgood -- The fear of dropping the violin -- The pepper plant -- Empty night, when you hear the surf pounding -- Not the blood a dreamer kissed from my mouth -- The dream -- Water -- Write -- For Michael, armoured with roses -- The lady who sang -- The dark clack of morays -- Light -- Sun with hands for rays -- Donna.