Straight Razor and Other Poems
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2012
66 pages
978-1-927428-48-1 (ISBN)
Description
Straight Razor and Other Poems brings together Salvatore Ala's new poems and selections from his privately published broadsides. It is a beautiful and original collection. Both formal and lyrical, it is the work of a determined and committed craftsman.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Table of Contents / ix
- The Nightstand / 1
- Homage to Pablo Neruda / 2
- The Chinese Masters / 3
- The House of Poe / 4
- Poetry Prize / 5
- Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery / 6
- In Memory of Czelaw Milosz (1911-2004) / 7
- On a Portrait of George Rodenbach (1855-1898) by Levy-Dhurmer / 8
- The Cancer Library / 9
- A Belated Eulogy / 10
- Pathetic Fallacy / 11
- City after Rain / 12
- Motor City Rap / 13
- City of Cats / 14
- Florence, 1993 / 15
- Christmas Prayer for the Millennium / 16
- Leda and the Swans / 17
- The Octopus / 18
- The Silver Maple / 19
- Déjà vu / 20
- Visions of a Country Road / 21
- Land Snails / 22
- Fossil Record / 23
- Peyote / 24
- Living Mask / 25
- The Searcher / 26
- The Window / 27
- Island Light / 28
- A Riddle at Mondello / 29
- A ChildTs Symphony / 30
- Family Tragedies / 31
- He Claps His Hands- / 32
- The Heaven of Handicapped Children / 33
- A Father Speaks to His Children / 34
- Straight Razor / 35
- Barbers / 36
- Haircut and Shave / 37
- The Barber has No Place to Cry / 38
- Tools of the Trade / 39
- Thank You, Poetry / 40
- Sweeping the Barbershop Floor / 41
- A Childhood Pharmacopoeia / 42
- Dago Red / 43
- Unloading Watermelons at the Windsor Market / 44
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- Grandmother / 46
- My MotherTs Bread / 47
- My Life in Opera / 48
- Madame Butterfly / 49
- A Summing Up / 50
- The Guitar Player / 51
- The Accordion of Orlando Bracci (1919-1960) / 52
- The Uncanny / 53
- The Cellist / 54
- Composition in Gray / 55
- Love in the Catacombs / 56
- Nautical / 57
- Woman as Wave / 58
- The Study of Languages / 59
- At the Museum of Natural History / 60
- Last Will and Testament / 61
