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Book SynopsisNamed for Leland Hickman's unfinished, long poem, Tiresias, this volume gathers all of the poetry published during Hickman's lifetime as well as unpublished pieces drawn from his archives at the University of California, San Diego. With this book, Hickman's innovative, emotional, and absolutely unique confessional verse will join the landscape of twentieth century American experimental poetry.
Trade Review"Hickman’s testament is visceral, haunting, and generously spread."—Robert Peters, Small Press Review
Table of ContentsEditor's Note and Acknowledgments • Preface – Dennis Phillips • EARLY POEMS • Call for a New Creation • Anaximander • Charles, viewed in the silver • Work On What Has Been Spoiled • Further Work On What Has Been Spoiled • Lee Sr Falls to the Floor • UNPUBLISHED EARLY POEMS • The Virgo Poems • Message Poems • rhapsody Macaulay not historian his story • EARLY TIRESIAS • Tiresias I:1 • Tiresias I:2 • Tiresias I:3 • Tiresias I:4 • Tiresias I:5 • Tiresias I:6 • Tiresias I:7 • Tiresias I:8A • Tiresias I:8B • Tiresias I:9A • TIRESIAS I:9B: Great Slave Lake Suite • Hay River, September 1973 • Paint Child at Pain at Shock at • Fort Providence on the Mackenzie River • You hear? Sonny hush. • Yellowknife Bay • Coda • ELEMENTS • Hay River • The Hidden • O Blue Temple • Picasso Deathday Night • Fort Providence • Aphroditos Phalanthos • Aphroditos Absconditus • Sothsegger Scry • Blackwillow Darybreak • Yellowknife Bay • UNPUBLISHED TIRESIAS • for Gene Flower: magic Tiresias song • "my doubletongues flame in my all-night extremity sucker" • LATE POEMS • Annotation For That Which Follows • He Who Delights in Signs • Afterword – Bill Mohr • About the Author
