{"product_id":"in-a-prominent-bar-in-secaucus-new-and-selected-poems-19552007-johns-hopkins-poetry-and-fiction-9780801886546","title":"In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus New and Selected","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKennedy has long occupied a unique place in American poetry; In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus now offers the first comprehensive collection to span his entire career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA splendid volume... It is impossible not to think that his work will grow in estimation with each passing year. Booklist 2007 Kennedy is both a conceptualizer and a musician... the transformative element in Kennedy's creative process is the exactitude of his craft. -- Donald Junkins North Dakota Quarterly 2007 To us, Kennedy is the best of the best. RALPH: Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities 2008 A worthy heir... to the indispensably impertinent likes of Catullus amd Dean Swift-cheerfully serving notice that there's still nothing like an artfully pithy piece of verse for making short work of killjoys. -- David Barber Boston Globe 2008 X. J. Kennedy? He ought to be declared a national resource and excused from taxation. -- Wyatt Prunty Weekly Standard 2008 The high quality, abundance, and breadth of his writing-poetry, children's work, fiction, textbooks-and hislong presence on the literary scene make him one of the most important American poets today. -- Catherine Savage Brosman Chronicles 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNude Descending a Staircase (1961)\u003cbr\u003eFirst Confession\u003cbr\u003eSolitary Confinement\u003cbr\u003eOn a Child Who Lived One Minute\u003cbr\u003eFaces from a Bestiary\u003cbr\u003eNude Descending a Staircase\u003cbr\u003eThe Autumn in Norfolk Shipyard\u003cbr\u003eWarning to Sculptors\u003cbr\u003eLewis Carroll\u003cbr\u003eIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day\u003cbr\u003eBarking Dog Blues\u003cbr\u003eInscriptions after Fact\u003cbr\u003eLilith\u003cbr\u003eThe Sirens\u003cbr\u003eNarcissus Suitor\u003cbr\u003eTheater of Dionysus\u003cbr\u003eAt the Stoplight by the Paupers' Graves\u003cbr\u003eLittle Elegy\u003cbr\u003eLadies Looking for Lice\u003cbr\u003eB Negative\u003cbr\u003eAt Ghostwriter's Deathbed\u003cbr\u003eRondel\u003cbr\u003eOne a.m. with Voices\u003cbr\u003eGrowing into Love\u003cbr\u003eCross Ties\u003cbr\u003ePoets\u003cbr\u003eNothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought\u003cbr\u003eTraveler's Warnings\u003cbr\u003eMain Road West\u003cbr\u003eEdgar's Story\u003cbr\u003eNational Shrine\u003cbr\u003ePeace and Plenty\u003cbr\u003eDriving Cross-Country\u003cbr\u003eReading Trip\u003cbr\u003eRequiem in Hoboken\u003cbr\u003eFor a Maiden Lady\u003cbr\u003ePottery Class\u003cbr\u003eAbsentminded Bartender\u003cbr\u003eLoose Woman\u003cbr\u003eAnt Trap\u003cbr\u003eWest Somerville, Mass.\u003cbr\u003eDay Seven\u003cbr\u003eThe Ascent\u003cbr\u003eGolgotha\u003cbr\u003eOde\u003cbr\u003eTwo Apparitions\u003cbr\u003eArtificer\u003cbr\u003eDaughter in the House\u003cbr\u003eThe Shorter View\u003cbr\u003eGiving in to You\u003cbr\u003eSlim Volumes\u003cbr\u003eBreaking and Entering\u003cbr\u003eSong: Great Chain of Being\u003cbr\u003eConsumer's Report\u003cbr\u003eThe Atheist's Stigma\u003cbr\u003eIn a Secret Field\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson in Southern California (1973)\u003cbr\u003eMining Town\u003cbr\u003eSchizophrenic Girl\u003cbr\u003eEvening Tide\u003cbr\u003eA Little Night Music\u003cbr\u003eCelebrations After the Death of John Brennan (1974)\u003cbr\u003eThree Tenors, One Vehicle (1975)\u003cbr\u003eTalking Dust Bowl Blues\u003cbr\u003eSong to the Tune of \"Somebody Stole My Gal\"\u003cbr\u003eCross Ties: Selected Poems (1985)\u003cbr\u003eIn a Dry Season\u003cbr\u003eA Footpath Near Gethsemane\u003cbr\u003eDirty English Potatoes\u003cbr\u003eGoblet\u003cbr\u003eAunt Rectita's Good Friday\u003cbr\u003eHangover Mass\u003cbr\u003eOne-night Homecoming\u003cbr\u003eOctober\u003cbr\u003eJoshua\u003cbr\u003eOld Men Pitching Horseshoes\u003cbr\u003eTo Dorothy on Her Exclusion from The Guinness Book of World Records\u003cbr\u003eAt the Last Rites for Two Hotrodders\u003cbr\u003eFlitting Flies\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Professor Backwards\u003cbr\u003eAt Brown Crane Pavilion\u003cbr\u003eOn the Proposed Seizure of Twelve Graves in a Colonial Cemetery\u003cbr\u003eA Beardsley Moment\u003cbr\u003eDark Horses (1992)\u003cbr\u003eThe Arm\u003cbr\u003eTwelve Dead, Hundreds Homeless\u003cbr\u003eThe Waterbury Cross\u003cbr\u003eVeterinarian\u003cbr\u003eThe Animals You Eat\u003cbr\u003eSnug\u003cbr\u003eOvernight Pass\u003cbr\u003eTwo from Guillaume Apollinaire\u003cbr\u003ePont Mirabeau\u003cbr\u003eChurchbells\u003cbr\u003eTo the Writers Forbidden to Write\u003cbr\u003eTerse Elegy for J. V. Cunningham\u003cbr\u003eOn Being Accused of Wit\u003cbr\u003eEmily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World Now that Her Homestead in Amherst Has an Answering Machine\u003cbr\u003eThe Withdrawn Gift\u003cbr\u003eOn the Square\u003cbr\u003eDump\u003cbr\u003eSummer Children\u003cbr\u003eTableau Intime\u003cbr\u003eFinis\u003cbr\u003eBlack Velvet Art\u003cbr\u003eThe Lords of Misrule (2002)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once\"\u003cbr\u003eJimmy Harlow\u003cbr\u003eNaomi Trimmer\u003cbr\u003eFive-and-Dime, Late Thirties\u003cbr\u003eSailors with the Clap\u003cbr\u003eFor Allen Ginsberg\u003cbr\u003eThebes: In the Robber Village\u003cbr\u003eClose Call\u003cbr\u003eStreet Moths\u003cbr\u003eDécor\u003cbr\u003eThe Ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James\u003cbr\u003eA Scandal in the Suburbs\u003cbr\u003eTo His Lover, That She Be Not Overdressed\u003cbr\u003eThe Blessing of the Bikes\u003cbr\u003eSharing the Score\u003cbr\u003eA Curse on a Thief\u003cbr\u003ePie\u003cbr\u003eShriveled Meditation\u003cbr\u003eMeditation in the Bedroom of General Francisco Franco\u003cbr\u003eMaples in January\u003cbr\u003eSeptember Twelfth, 2001\u003cbr\u003eNew Poems\u003cbr\u003ePanic in the Carwash\u003cbr\u003eAt Paestum\u003cbr\u003eRites\u003cbr\u003eSmall House Torn Down To Build a Larger\u003cbr\u003eUncertain Burial\u003cbr\u003eInnocent Times\u003cbr\u003eEpiphany\u003cbr\u003eFurnished Rental\u003cbr\u003eBrotherhood\u003cbr\u003eDeath of a Window Washer\u003cbr\u003ePacifier\u003cbr\u003eGeometry\u003cbr\u003eSilent Cell Phones\u003cbr\u003eFireflies\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Filbert's Golden Quarters\u003cbr\u003eJerry Christmas\u003cbr\u003ePoor People in Church\u003cbr\u003eSonnet Beginning with a Line and a Half Abandoned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\u003cbr\u003eGod's Obsequies\u003cbr\u003eStorehouse\u003cbr\u003eAt the Antiques Fair\u003cbr\u003eSecret River\u003cbr\u003eCommand Decision\u003cbr\u003eBald Eagle\u003cbr\u003eMeeting a Friend Again After Thirty Years\u003cbr\u003eFinding a Tintype\u003cbr\u003eOut of Tune with the Stars\u003cbr\u003eEnvoi\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Titles and First Lines\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527626662231,"sku":"9780801886546","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801886546.jpg?v=1731868601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-a-prominent-bar-in-secaucus-new-and-selected-poems-19552007-johns-hopkins-poetry-and-fiction-9780801886546","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}