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Alfred de Grazia

Twentieth Century Fire-Sale

Pro Ami Amor

Published in 1996


PARTS:


ECOLOGY SOCIOGRAMS PLACES IDENTITY
INTIMACIES
VIOLENCE DEATH GODS WORLD



Foreword and Contents



Here are poems written over a period of twenty-six years -- even more, if I go back to the scraps that finally took form. My theory of poetry has gone unchanged: if one liked the first volume, one will probably like this, the second. If ever there is drawn a line between poetry and prose, some of these poems will become prose. To my mind, poetry is a concentration upon hypothesis, prose a straining for proof. Both should enjoy literary elegance. Poetry is lucky to be allowed many twists and turns of mind and style; prose is a beast that plods or trots, but cannot change its flesh and bones. Their inventor, Homo Schizo, loves both of them.
PART ONE: ECOLOGY..
Stealthy Rain..
Snow and Soot..
False Thaw..
Cocktail Peanut..
Sheepish Dog..
Mosquito..
The Odd Cock..
Trudela..
Two Snails in Love..
Apocalyptic Easy-Riders..
Man Bites Insect..
Impurity of the Species..
Half-Day Sun..
Fridays..
PART TWO: SOCIOGRAMS..
Get Wed..
Library Donor..
Drugees..
To: Newly Chosen Officials..
The Young Lawyer..
Pennsylvania Railroad Co...
Nobody Gains..
Walk in Greenwich Village..
Oh, No Yo-yo's..
Greenwich Village Poem-Painter..
PART THREE: PLACES..
Washington Square..
Manhattan II..
Minnesota Farmer..
Vision of a Texas Spring..
July at Watch Hill, R.I...
India Now and Then..
Bombay by the Sea..
Gothenburg..
Road to Piraeus..
Côte d'Azur..
Dawn at Stylida..
Pushing Off..
PART FOUR: IDENTITY..
Autobiography..
Father Figure..
A Child's Truths of Life..
Lucia's Birthday Toast..
Sixty..
In a Manger..
Children at the Cradle..
Youth Enters Age..
Parenting..
Heart at Parting..
Lord Bheem II..
Miserable Yuletide..
A Toast at a Banquet..
Wish We Life Away..
Soliloquy of a Failure..
The Loss of Memories..
Nice Southern Ladies..
A Better Rule..
Mindwandering..
Poet against Composer..
Jazz Lip..
Heartbeats..
Hyperactive..
Verbosity..
PART FIVE: INTIMACIES..
Tide..
Foremost and Final..
Scenario for a Taormina Frieze..
Member of the Audience..
Love Affairs of Aphrodite..
Nothing at All..
A Willing Slave..
You..
Days of Doubts..
Low Beginnings..
Ariadne II..
Jottings for a Love Letter..
Losing Love..
Anna's Matins..
Not Enough of You..
The Undivorced Couple..
Course on Love..
Love Light..
PART SIX: VIOLENCE..
Advance Party..
Idea of a Soldier..
The Relief Moves into Position..
Ninth Bullet..
Cambodia..
The Orchid of PFC Perkins..
Saigon..
PART SEVEN: DEATH..
Mom..
Who Will Mourn..
Post-Mortem Complaint..
What's Wrong with Death?..
Replaced Learning..
Sheva..
Death by Forty..
Yoga of Death..
A Viper's Well..
Pity the Mourners..
Livio Catullus Stecchini..
Of Meister Nathan Leites..
Laura..
Harold D. Lasswell..
Ralph Juergens..
Pensées Funèbres..
PART EIGHT: GODS..
God is Good..
A Quantavolution..
More Gods..
Bon Noël, A.M...
Entropy and Theotropy..
Catechism of the Divine Succession..
Gods..
The Swiss Gift..
PART NINE: WORLD..
Raps in Half-Time..
Chernobyl..
Wicked World..
Lucky Generation..
Making Civic Cowards..
Kalotic Peopling Man..
Kalotics of World Reconstitution..
Weltschmerz Trauma..
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