Eighty Odes Poetry By Mary Gribble
Subtitle: A Lyceum Book
Edition: First
Series: ISNN 0-8062-1662-X
Publisher: Carlton Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, NY
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: The Eighties
Genres: Poetry
First sentence: THE BOTTOM LIONS

Pitiful-proud/Painted in earth tones/Painted and basic/Livid-serene.
Description: (Reviewer on dust jacket:) 
 " Through artifice, ruse and rampant wit, Mary Gribble has contrived this set of contemporary poetry--illusive, magnetic, its refinement is concealed within a poetic diction so natural we may at first presume it to be the work nof a diffident hand,

""Tis true, "tis true, one who would extract a vial of integrity from the distempered surround is strife-born - and in truth this spirited pros is the  device of the artist as Promethean harbinger and serves to infuse us with the fire to engage life in nimble competition.  As well, this poet is the mistress of sublime transition; in the  same poem, she moves consciously and naturally from :       (with her apologies to A. A. Miilne:   In his poem about Christopher Robin's questions  about the seasons and  the sun, as he watches the change at  his bedtime and getting up time.) 

                          In summer when I go out to paint
                          A neighbor deems me what I ain't
                          Pushing for a mood transition
                          When spotting me in lewd position

to the obverse:

                           Bathed, idle
                           Quite the other way
                           No one ever wants to play.                         

"She lends her stunning vision to the contemplation of worthless jobs, the celebration of gutsy ladies, the inner meaning of the squawk of an electric typewriter,  birdseed expense accounts and a striking venture into a deceptively literal self-reflection upon one's own clone. 

Listen...   is this a new literary breeze rustling through the silvan glades of poesy?  Pi ck though these leaves and see."
Notes: TO                                                                                  

Donald
Allan
Von
Snitz
Mama
Larry
and
2-D
Table of contents: pagenum: 9
class: part
label: THE BOTTOM LIONS; pagenum: 12
class: part
label: WAR AND NOW; pagenum: 15
class: part
label: THEN; pagenum: 16
class: part
label: THE LOST SQUAWK; pagenum: 17
class: part
label: BUBBLES THE HIPPO AWOL FROM CALIFORNIA RETREAT; pagenum: 18
class: part
label: PAINT; pagenum: 20
class: part
label: C'MON NOW..A TALKING TAPE MEASURE?; pagenum: 22
class: part
label: THE LITTLE BROWN BIRDIE; pagenum: 24
class: part
label: CHRISTMAS AND THE WORKING GIRL; pagenum: 26
class: part
label: CLONE; pagenum: 27
class: part
label: I DID WANT TO BE THE CHRISTMAS TREE; pagenum: 30
class: part
label: MODERN SCROOGE TRIES TO BE BORN AGAIN THIS CHRISTMAS; pagenum: 31
class: part
label: RESEARCH DATA:  THE '80'S