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Frank: sonnets
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Table of Contents
From the Book
[I drove all the way to Cape Disappointment] p. 3 --
[The problem with sweetness is death] p. 4 --
[intimacy unhinged, unpaddocked me] p. 5 --
[I met a man a dying man] p. 6 --
[It is abominable, unquenchable by touch] p. 7 --
[Sometimes I can't feel it] p. 8 --
[I could do it. I could walk into the sea] p. 9 --
[Press a foot into this beach] p. 10 --
[The best is when you respond] p. 11 --
[From this bench I like to call my bench] p. 12 --
[Poetry, the only father, landscape] p. 13 --
[Here on this edge] p. 14 --
[To return from Paradise] p. 15 --
[What is it you feel, I asked Kurt] p. 16 --
[Listening to "Summertime"] p. 17 --
[There is a certain state of grace] p. 18 --
["No need to sparkle"] p. 19 --
[My earliest memory] p. 20 --
[Since age three, I went looking] p. 21 --
[Who wants to be soft? I don't] p. 22 --
[I was raised in a rectangle] p. 23 --
[I was not a large child] p. 24 --
[Freak accidents do happen] p. 25 --
[My first crush was Wild Bill Hickok] p. 26 --
[They lived next door, four boys] p. 27 --
[I suck so many cough drops] p. 28 --
[I floated I flew I fell to Earth] p. 29 --
[That bar, World of the Satisfyin' Place] p. 30 --
[Labels now slip off me like clothes] p. 31 --
[All at once David went catatonic] p. 32 --
[I want drugs again; whimsy] p. 33 --
[His body was barely cold] p. 34 --
[The lambs this year are dumb] p. 35 --
[One's got an eye thing] p. 36 --
[When the lamb humped her leg] p. 37 --
[After the pigs and lambs and rabbits] p. 38 --
[The parents tried to build a little Eden] p. 39 --
[The fat suffering of the farrowing sow] p. 40 --
[The patriarch of Jesus Camp is dead] p. 41 --
[It was a land without charm] p. 42 --
[The White Rabbit was before] p. 43 --
[They wander in, two Southdowns] p. 44 --
[He came to us all the way down here with us] p. 45 --
[For a couple years, I slept nights] p. 46 --
[Once, I took a Greyhound north] p. 47 --
[I have slept in many places] p. 48 --
[My first night in New York] p. 49 --
[I'm watching A Face in the Crowd] p. 50 --
[I can't rest, can't get no relief] p. 51 --
[I should have been in cinema] p. 52 --
[Parties among strangers] p. 53 --
[There's something to be said for having] p. 54 --
[Margaret Sanger did the first one] p. 55 --
[I saw Robert Creeley] p. 56 --
[The famous poets came for us] p. 57 --
[Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some] p. 58 --
[I can't say I loved punk] p. 59 --
[Thirty-nine years ago is nothing] p. 60 --
[We all have our trauma nadir] p. 61 --
[I aborted two daughters] p. 62 --
[I fell on an incline, talus, tibia] p. 63 --
[There is a force that breaks the body] p. 64 --
[It's that time of spring] p. 65 --
[OD'd on his Suboxone] p. 66 --
[I hoisted them, two drug dealers] p. 67 --
[Freelance artist. That's what you say] p. 68 --
[How do you stand being so virtuous] p. 69 --
[Where is the drug to drug] p. 70 --
[Then, I account it high time to get to sea] p. 71 --
[Which, he asks me, is your favorite story] p. 72 --
[She's a big James Stewart fan] p. 73 --
[Why would God be so mean, he asks] p. 74 --
[Then when I grew up] p. 75 --
[What do you think Elvis's best song was] p. 76 --
[On what day do you think Jesus] p. 77 --
[Maybe we wander] p. 78 --
[I've lived with death from the beginning] p. 79 --
[I fell in love with death] p. 80 --
[I could do the love] p. 81 --
[I've encountered the exoskeleton] p. 82 --
[All lives have their tropes] p. 83 --
[In the dream, my mother called my name] p. 84 --
[I dreamed of it again, my dad's body] p. 85 --
[I dreamed I had to find my way] p. 86 --
[Goldenrod, I could say, you know] p. 87 --
[How will I leave this life, like I left my job] p. 88 --
[I dreamed a color, no plot, a color] p. 89 --
[He called from San Francisco] p. 90 --
[I want to zero in on what he looked like] p. 91 --
[He said it bummed him out his dick] p. 92 --
[I saw a little movie of a person stroking] p. 93 --
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial] p. 94 --
[Death does not exist in poetry] p. 95 --
[I was tethered to this Earth] p. 96 --
[Abrupt lines on the nature of beauty] p. 97 --
[Literature is dangerous business] p. 98 --
[I wanted to be the boy in the book] p. 99 --
[My literary tastes of late are manic] p. 100 --
[Chekhov sits waiting for me] p. 101 --
[Either all of this is an apparition or I am] p. 102 --
[Mountains black today, hiding] p. 103 --
[For twenty-six days I lived] p. 104 --
[When I am away I miss] p. 105 --
[It's a real Garden of Eden story] p. 106 --
[And then landscape was all there was] p. 107 --
[The emergent self is not a self that loves] p. 108 --
[Takes time to get to minimalism] p. 109 --
[All things now remind me] p. 110 --
[Those days, if I consider them] p. 111 --
[The world today is wet] p. 112 --
[The small stuff, the care] p. 113 --
[I can't see her clearly] p. 114 --
[It won't kill me to be sad again] p. 115 --
[I wish I still smoked] p. 116 --
[The sonnet, like poverty] p. 117 --
[My favorite scent is my own funk] p. 118 --
[You know what living means] p. 119 --
[Marry dull] p. 120 --
[Lately I've been feeling about poetry] p. 121 --
[Ever since Elise brought up] p. 122 --
[My private parts are many] p. 123 --
[Back then its hair was Cleopatraed] p. 124 --
[To say that I'm a witch] p. 125 --
[After forty years] p. 126 --
[For me it's going to be] p. 127 --
[I courted her, that musky tart] p. 128 --
[My tits are bruised] p. 129 --
[I hope when it happens] p. 130.
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9781644450451