A Nice Place to Visit : The Story of Two American Filmmakers.

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Don't Sleep with Anyone Who -- Three Approaches to Robert DeParis -- The Thief -- The Drama Queen -- The Old Friend -- Looking on the Bright Side -- Ian and Flowers -- Ode on My Mangina -- Some Very Funny Things That Might Happen -- Humouresque -- I Don't Want to Go to School -- All Banks Are Death -- Velly Solly -- The Kiss at the Door -- Auntie Louise -- I Am Not the Kind -- Self-Storage -- Ode to John Wildman -- You Took the Books -- Some Little Known Truths About South Pacific -- Agoraphobic Poem -- New York Diary -- Ravishing -- Why? -- Pardon My Aporia -- The One I Chose -- Marjorie Morningstar -- The Damned Don't Cry! -- Costa Rica -- Good Question -- Being With You -- What Do We Do About Love? -- On the Way Back from Connecticut -- It's Something I Learned a Long Time Ago Playing Chess with Dominic -- Parker Posey -- Ian's Getting Drunk -- Ode to Ian -- To the Boy Who Sits by the Pool -- Old Man -- Key West Regret -- Laura's Dream -- Why I Would Rather Chat with a Hamilton Crack Whore than an Old Rich Toronto Lady with a Lap Dog -- Poem for Keith's Birthday -- Photos for My Family: The Captions I Never Sent -- Romance -- The Performance -- Queer Manifesto -- Acknowledgements -- Back Cover.

It’s difficult to describe A Nice Place to Visit. Some will say it’s not a book of poetry at all — but that’s just because it’s funny and has reviews of bad movies and advice on things like love. Also, it’s a kind of travelogue: you get to go to Costa Rica and look at plants and and stuff and think more about love. And oh yeah, the book tells you who not to sleep with — that’s very important. And have you ever heard of John Wildman, the guy who starred in the Canadian hit movie My American Cousin? Well, there’s an ode to him. There are memorable lines like “Lois and Fran gave me a frying pan.” (But you probably won’t like it if you haven’t heard of Parker Posey. You have heard of Parker Posey, right?) Mostly it’s about things you’ll always remember — like that summer when the boys in Montreal were all wearing underwear that said “Home Of The Brave.” You know . . . It’s a nice place to visit — but I wouldn’t want to live there.

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