American Fanatics.

Intro -- Contents -- I: Security -- American Fanatics -- Lucky Nails -- Security -- The Backyard -- Small Casket -- Blue Distances, Northern California -- Dying Your Black Clothes Black -- Ephebiphobia -- Arriving Late at the Birthplace of Pentecostalism -- Litany with Garbage Keeper and Bones -- II: Hell -- A Series of Earnest Offers, for the Raising of a Man from the Dead -- Pocket Vampire -- Hell -- Linnet Street -- Something in the House Was Beeping -- Face Lift, One -- Aubade with Eggs Breaking -- My Gothic -- Tijuana Clinic -- It Is Good to Be amongst Catholics Again -- III: Responsibility -- A Shopper's Prayer -- Diet Frosting -- Mollie Fancher, Marvelous Invalid, Lives without Food! -- New Trousseau -- Responsibility -- Don't Leave Me This Way -- Summer Replacement: Pure Jesus, Early Morning Shift -- When I am sick of working -- If God Were a Wiseguy -- IV: A Selective History of Los Angeles, in Seven Turns -- Where Will You Spend Your Eternity? -- A Selective History of Los Angeles, in Seven Turns -- V: How's the World Treating You? -- Visiting Hour -- John Lennon's Lips -- Spellbind -- Spirit Photograph -- Winter Nap, Late Afternoon -- Stereotype -- Motion Picture and Television Arts Home for the Aging, Woodland Hills, California -- The Last Poem -- How's the World Treating You? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.

A book of contemporary poetry exploring the fine, shifting line between faith--secular and spiritual faith--and fanaticism in an insecure age, American Fanatics is a lyrical, pop-culture inflected meditation on democracy, morality, beauty, commerce, and the cost of falling dreams.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.