Guinevere in Baltimore
Subtitle: [poems]
By: Shelley Puhak
Publisher: Waywiser
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chipping Norton, Oxon, UK; Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781904130574
Notes: Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, 2012.
Table of contents: title: On having sex, grief-stricken; title: An infomercial for the ladies-in-waiting; title: Guinevere, facing forty in Baltimore, writes to Lancelot; title: The debt ceiling; title: Lancelot, en route, stopping off at Fort McHenry; title: Arthur, pantoum for an empty table; title: The financial minister writes to Arthur; title: Arthur, screwing with Lancelot in the Starbucks Line; title: The manor maids petition their lord; title: Guinevere, fancying herself a wanton microbiologist; title: Lancelot, at the Home Depot; title: Arthur to Guinevere, while watching Occupy Wall Street unfold on the evening news; title: Searching for Baltimore; title: Guinevere, supine; title: Lancelot, prone; title: Letter to an old flame; title: The great fire of Baltimore, 1904; title: The Lexington Market fire, 1949; title: On Hurricane Agnes; title: Guinevere writes to Lancelot from the vacation home in Sirmoine; title: Betsy Patterson, after meeting Jérôme Bonaparte, dreams of a pea, 1803; title: Guinevere, to Lancelot as he watches Casino Royale for the third time; title: Arthur, on the history of anxiety; title: Guinevere, after Arthur's appointment with the specialist; title: The court physician interviews Guinevere; title: Lancelot, the microbiology of us; title: Guinevere, dissecting Lancelot; title: Lancelot, in the apple store; title: Lady Elaine, Lancelot's baby-momma, in the chapel perilous; title: Jonet Gothkirk to William Murdoch; title: Confession for the Bromo Seltzer Tower; title: Guinevere, thirteen reasons to be ardent about Euclidean geometry; title: Lancelot, fancying himself a playboy astronomer; title: Guinevere to Arthur, on starting over; title: Lady Elaine, Lancelot's baby-momma: how we pose in vacation photos; title: Betsy Patterson Bonaparte to her brother-in-law Napoleon, upon landing at Dover alone and nine months pregnant, 1805; title: Lady Elaine, meeting Guinevere at the employee picnic; title: Guinevere, meeting Lancelot at the Walters Art Gallery; title: Lancelot questions the clairvoyant; title: Waiting out an election; title: Guinevere to Lancelot in role-play: H.D. and Pound; title: Lancelot, after being caught downloading porn; title: The court troubadour's song for the old streetcar track; title: Lancelot, advising Galahad at the Office Depot; title: Guinevere, to all of her unborns; title: Snow White and the seven satellites; title: The last meeting, along the path to Arthur's grave; title: Lancelot, facing fifty in Philadelphia, writes to Guinevere.