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Book SynopsisWhile The Pleasure Principle is full of surprises, both narrative and metaphoric, it is more than anything a humane and thoughtful exploration of the human condition: passion, mortality, cross-dressing, time, tourism, art, the shifty nature of reality, and, always considered in Loomis's work, the unknowable absolute.
Table of ContentsRomance: A Parable • The Pleasure Principle • Sin • You Blow Out the Candles • Longing • Epithalamial • Addictions • Happiness • Conversion • Balthus Returns • Russian Novel • Millennial • Skinnydipping, Late Summer • After the Rapture • On the First Tee with Charles Wright • Uncle Chester’s Second Wife • Tourists • Prayer at Thirty Below • Race Point Vanitas • Tall Ships • In the Old City • Dark City • Desiccated Mouse Found on Screen Porch • Insomnia Dentata • Ovid in Florida • Fire Ants • Nursing Home • 1882: The Afterlife • In Circe’s Garden • Letter from the Cardiac Unit • The Past • Uncle • Pneumonia, 1969 • Camping Trip • This Poet’s Life: A Memoir • Interiors • Regret • Damage • Peace • Mis en Abime • In the Mirror It Is Sunday • Misfit Farm • November • Sex • Ars Poetica • Deer Hit • Notes • Acknowledgments
