The alphabet of desire
By: Barbara Hamby.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Description: In this book of poetry, Barbara Hamby races through the circuitous regions of heaven and hell, desire and love, trailing words ahead of and behind her, giving shape and significance to the strange and the familiar. Not limited to the self-referential, Hamby playfully references historic and literary personae, taking stabs at Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bible, and Casanova.
Table of contents: title: The word; title: Millennium rave; title: Blood; title: The ex-goddess speaks; title: The hunter; title: The chicken-wire girls; title: With Sonya; title: Beriberi; title: Mr. Pillow; title: Paper; title: Cut; title: Hey, Udine!; title: Thinking of Galileo; title: The dream of the red drink; title: Achtung, my princess, good night; title: Beelzebub the prowl; title: Cruelty; title: Dad, Dave, deluge, death; title: Elliot and I discuss Eliot via Macbeth; title: Footbinding as a way of life; title: Gospel; title: Hatred; title: Irony waltz; title: Jane Austen jambalaya; title: Kamehameha Drive-in, 25 years later; title: Laudanum for everyone; title: Midnight the Piazza della Signoria; title: Noli me tangere, stupid; title: Origami ragtime; title: Pas de deux with incubi; title: Quel scandale, darling; title: Reichsführer blues; title: So long, Roy; title: Trigger tries to explain; title: Uccello, Filippo Lippi, Leonardo; title: Valentine for Martin Luther; title: Woo; title: X-ray of your brain at 4 a.m.; title: Yellow fever; title: Zugzwang amore; title: Ode on my wasted youth; title: Ode to Italian fruit; title: Ode to money; title: Ode to public bathrooms; title: Ode to insects; title: Ode to warts; title: Ode to teeth; title: Ode to untoward dreams; title: Ode to black and white movies; title: Ode to breath; title: Ode to castrati; title: Ode to my bitterness; title: Ode to the lost luggage warehouse at the Rome Airport.