Vice : new and selected poems / Ai
- Bib ID:
- 93777
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ai, 1947-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : W.W. Norton, c1999
- xiv, 256 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0393047059
- Summary:
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Collected here are poems from Ai's previous five books - Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed - along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark force, these new dramatic monologues continue to mine this award-winning poet's fierce vision. In Ai's world, desire has no boundaries. Known as the foremost poet of urban terror, part African American, Asian American, and Native American, Ai takes the reader on a journey into the heart, torn from the bared chests of the living and sacrificed to the ravenous dead.
- Full contents:
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- Twenty-Year Marriage
- Abortion
- The Country Midwife: A Day
- Cruelty
- The Tenant Farmer
- Why Can't I Leave You?
- I Have Got to Stop Loving You
- Young Farm Woman Alone
- One Man Down
- Hangman
- The Sweet
- The Hitchhiker
- Cuba, 1962
- Child Beater
- Everything: Eloy, Arizona, 1956
- Killing Floor
- Nothing but Color
- Talking to His Reflection in a Shallow Pond
- 29 (A Dream in Two Parts)
- She Didn't Even Wave
- Ice
- The Ravine
- The Kid
- I Can't Get Started
- Pentecost
- The Gilded Man
- Two Brothers
- Blue Suede Shoes
- The Prisoner
- Conversation
- More
- The Good Shepherd: Atlanta, 1981
- The Mother's Tale
- The Priest's Confession
- Elegy
- The Testimony of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- The Detective
- The Journalist
- Go
- Jimmy Hoffa's Odyssey
- Boys and Girls, Lenny Bruce, or Back from the Dead
- General George Armstrong Custer: My Life in the Theater
- Interview with a Policeman
- James Dean
- Reunions with a Ghost.
- Capture
- Evidence: From a Reporter's Notebook
- The Cockfighter's Daughter
- Riot Act, April 29, 1992
- Hoover, Edgar J.
- Hoover Trismegistus
- Jack Ruby on Ice
- Oswald Incognito & Astral Travels
- Miracle in Manila
- Finished
- Life Story
- Penis Envy
- Greed
- Rapture
- False Witness
- Sleeping Beauty
- Charisma
- The Antihero
- Rwanda
- Stalking Memory
- The Paparazzi
- Afterschool Lessons from a Hitman
- Chance
- Knock, Knock
- Blood in the Water
- Back in the World
- Flashback
- Momento Mori
- Visitation
- Star Vehicle (My Senior Year in High School)
- Passing Through.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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