Tombo
By: W.S. Di Piero
Series: McSweeney's poetry series -- 6; McSweeney's poetry series -- 6.
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9781938073762
Subjects: American poetry
Description: Explosive language, rough sensuousness, unflinching eye--here is a poet who will not look away, and who is always committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. TOMBO is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence.
Notes: Poems.
Table of contents: title: The running dog; title: Starting over; title: Summertime summertime; title: It's that time; title: Hayes Street evening fugue; title: Sleeping potions; title: One night at the end of winter; title: Walking the Duboce Triangle; title: Earthquake and following tsunami; title: The Goldberg variations; title: Hub cap: an essay on poetry; title: Bruised fruit; title: Bologna 1974; title: Coppers and golds; title: Oystercatchers and lovers; title: The Black paintings: the mouth; title: The mendicats; title: Injun Joe and an avatar; title: Late lessons; title: The smell of spearmint; title: Other ways to heaven; title: Imagination running away; title: Que Tal; title: Blue Monday; title: Poem with an altered line by Frederick Tuckerman; title: What's left; title: The horizon line; title: So it goes; title: There were such things; title: The birds of the air; title: The big beach book; title: The heart; title: As it were upon the tongue (or Who ate the jam?); title: The ash bringer; title: Tombo.