The Welcome
Published on 18. January 2006
144 pages
978-0-252-09130-8 (ISBN)
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"The fact is that The Welcome is full of pleasures, both linguistic and ideational. There's a philosophical intelligence behind it, one that will rarely allow itself the sobrieties of the philosophical. . . . David Friedman blends surreal hijinks with gestures toward the serious, At their best, an original voice guides a distinctive sensibility in these poems. They'll give you, if you let them, one of literature's underrated virtues: a good time."--Stephen Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Whirlwind
- Dreamer
- Flugelhorn
- The Green Bear Shanghaied
- Altimeter
- The Past
- Chef
- Magda
- Heliotrope
- Dishabille
- Ladder
- The Welcome
- Typewriter
- Cricket
- In the Fullness of Time
- A Reincarnation
- Missing Person
- Panama
- Pilgrim
- Seasons
- Tomfoolery
- Antelope School
- Shoe
- Time Poem
- Varlet
- Tourniquet
- The Little Pastor
- Back from Exile
- Point of No Return
- Advice
- Bluestocking
- Skydiver
- 27 and 1/2
- A Brace of Firearms
- Who I Am
- Three
- Parade
- Mudflats
- Nepenthe
- Coffee
- The Box
- The One True Believer
- A Reunion
- On the Bridge
- Rock
- Born in England
- Bird of Paradise
- A Meeting
- Flight
- Love Poem
- The Key
- Watson
- Shuteye
- A Mystery
- Trust Me
- Statistics
- To Be Part of a House
- Fortuitous
- Strictly Speaking
