Jones, Saeed,

Prelude to bruise / Saeed Jones. - xii, 103 pages ; 22 cm

Anthracite. Insomniac. Closet of red. The blue dress. Isaac, after Mount Moriah. Pretending to drown. Boy in a stolen evening gown. Boy at edge of woods. Terrible Boy. Daedalus, after Icarus. Boy in a whalebone corset. Boy found inside a wolf. Boy at threshold. After the first shot. Last call. "Don't let the sun set on you". Prelude to a bruise. Coyote cry. Jasper, 1998. Lower Ninth. Drag. Kudzu. Beheaded kingdom. Thralldom. Cruel body. Thallium. He thinks he can leave me. Secondhand (smoke). Body & Kentucky bourbon. Eclipse of my third life. Guilt. Sleeping arrangement. Apologia. Ketamine & company. Thralldom II. Skin like brick dust. Kingdom of trick, kingdom of drug. Blue prelude. In Nashville. Highway 407. Meridian. Mercy. Mississippi drowning. Casket sharp. Dominion. The fabulist. Room without a ghost. Dirge. After last night. Hour between dog & wolf. Postapocalyptic heartbeat. History, according to Boy. Last portrait as Boy.

9781566893749

2014008086


American poetry--21st century.

PS3610.O6279 / P74 2014

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