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Book SynopsisIn this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer.
Charles Rafferty is the author of six collections of poetry, one collection of stories, and two poetry chapbooks. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT, where he works at a technology research firm, directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, and teaches in the Westport Writers' Workshop.
Table of ContentsContents After the Flood 5 Diminution 6 Grackles 7 Golf Course Moon 8 An Adulterous Spring 9 A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another 10 The Problem With Where We Live 11 Drift 12 Mal Evans Counting 13 Futility 14 The Man Who Bled Wine 15 Returning From Vincentown 16 Common Nocturne 17 The Bridges 18 First Owl 19 Reflection 20 The Problem With Wanting Something 21 Unnoticed 22 Flags 23 Genie 24 Metropolitan 25 The Problem With African Violets 26 Winter Festival 27 Leisure 28 Caught 29 Two Pianos 30 Two People Kissing in the Park as Seen From a Speeding Train 31 Windows 32 For the Last Polaroid 33 Carp 34 Aqueduct 35 Quarry 36 The Reductionist 37 Resumption 38 Royalty 39 Barbarian 40 Garden State Racetrack 41 The Problem With Mercy 42 Blackbirds 43 Swans 44 Hotel Bible 45 Catena 46 The Problem With Spotfin Shiners 47 River 48 Swamp 49 Magellan 50 Antique 51 An Explanation of How One Thing Leads to Another 52 Proofs 53 The Untuned Piano 54 Pelican 55 Ellipses 56 Forecast 57 Summer 1985 58 Snowfall After Hearing Hard News 59 On First Looking Into Keats's Chapman's Homer 60 Obscurity 61 A Farewell to Poetry 62 The Saddest Bid for Immortality Ever Devised 63
