A Table of Content Poems,9781555974022

A Table of Content Poems

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ISBN13: 9781555974022
ISBN10: 1555974023
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher(s): Graywolf Press
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Summary

The extraordinary first poetry collection by the renowned painter and sculptor Dorothea Tanning Finally, on second, in bras. Bras swarming everywhere, giant pink moths at rest, their empty cups clamoring, "Fill me." -from "End of the Day on Second" Dorothea Tanning is an exceptional visual artist, and now, in her nineties, she has become an exceptional poet. InA Table of Content, we are made to see more clearly the city landscape, the creative impulse, and the worlds of potential disaster and sensual erotics with a vision that survives taste, trend, and time.

Author Biography

Dorothea Tanning was born in 1910. She is the author of a memoir, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World, and her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Poetry 2000. She lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Are You?p. 3
Aspects of Ice, Detailp. 5
A Table of Contentp. 6
Awake at Fifteenp. 7
Bridge, Moon, Professor, Shoesp. 8
Camouflagep. 9
Collage (La Femme 100 Tetes)p. 12
Destinationsp. 14
End of the Day on Secondp. 15
Figure Approaching, Oppositep. 16
Flea Market (Rainy Day)p. 18
Fortune Cookiesp. 19
Graduationp. 20
Heaven on Earthp. 23
Il a Trouve la Mortp. 25
Insomnia, my cousinp. 27
It's Late in the Rue de Lillep. 28
Landscape with Postmarkp. 30
Life of Crime: St. Julien le Pauvrep. 32
Minor Incident at the Intersectionp. 35
9 table settingsp. 36
No Palmsp. 37
Occupied Musical Chairsp. 38
Of Beatitudep. 40
Of Flesh and Goldp. 42
Orphanotrophiump. 43
Pursued, I Ran into the Barnp. 47
Raftp. 48
Rain of Blood, Aix-en-Provencep. 50
Reckless Wordsp. 52
Remindersp. 53
Report from the Fieldp. 54
Rue Monge Narratedp. 55
Secretp. 57
Sequestriennep. 58
Sibyllinep. 59
Six Avian Perilsp. 60
Space Disarmedp. 64
Strawberriesp. 65
Sybarisp. 67
The Triumph of Venusp. 71
This Is a Recordingp. 72
Time Flewp. 73
To Our Father Who Artp. 74
To That Gardenp. 75
Tour Dynamicsp. 76
To Zenop. 78
Two City Micep. 79
Unfounded Certitudesp. 80
Waverly and a Placep. 81
Window Treatmentp. 83
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