Nowhere Fast
Published on 1. October 2012
59 pages
978-1-61750-833-2 (ISBN)
Description
Nowhere Fast offers a view of a world where fools rush in only to be baffled by ordinary dramas-of sexuality and gender, of family, of death and dying. By turns rueful, sardonic and tender, these narratives are overseen by a joyous mockery which reveals to us what Allen Ginsberg once called our quintessential "e;jerkhood"e;-to be living in a realm where satisfaction is denied and expectations are frustrated-the heart and soul of the absurd. In sixty exquisite prose poems, memory, dream and fantasy take turns animating the many identities of the "e;I"e; in a dark comedy of manners where the surreal underscores our eternal condition. In turns jocular and menacing, masculine and vulnerable, bawdy and rueful, Nowhere Fast marks the debut collection of a poet it seems we've always been waiting for.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Ask Tiresias
- What Happened in Pre-History
- Tales from the Pennsylvania Woods
- A Fool for the City
- The Triumph of Narcissus and Aphrodite
- Lucid Dreams
- From the Annals of Chick School
- More Words about Our Birds
- Sitcom
- Flexible
- Kulik's Ten-Thousandth Dream
- Ms. Rule
- The Aristocrats
- Porn Fable
- Hot Girls
- Bad Boys
- "Arch of Triumph" (1948)
- Explication de Texte
- No Recourse
- Four for Max
- Dinner
- Résumé
- The Politics of Experience
- In the Bank
- Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- How Dartmouth Got Its Nickname
- News from Nowhere
- Susceptible
- Backstory
- Irrational Geographic: Who Made Thee
- Green-Card Guilt
- Pretty-Boy Freud
- Fictions
- Old House Blues
- Colloquy
- Two for Pop
- Hi
- Car Talk
- Nowhere Fast
- Obit
- Irrational Geographic: Tablets
- Hypereducated
- Reunion
- Birdbrain Sings
- Give Me Liberty or Whatever
- Lost Tango
- Irrational Geographic: A Dog's Life
- Divestment
- Beneath the Sun
- Final Solution
- Fusion
- Paradise Won
