High Water Mark : Prose Poems.

Intro -- Contents -- Part I -- The Rain -- The Polka-Dot Shirt -- The Japanese Rooms -- How to Sit in a Café -- Prescription for Insomniacs -- What Hemingway Learned from Cézanne -- The Institute of Cool -- A Nazi in Retirement -- The Blue Period -- Lifesaving -- Part II -- Coronado Rises in the Stirrups -- All Seas Belong to Neruda -- Hitler's Barber -- Ferlinghetti's Ears -- Custer -- Three Kings -- With Fitzgerald along the Côte d'Azur -- Mornings with Freud -- The Psychic Geography of Atlantis -- III -- Household Buddhas -- A Saint for You -- The Shape of the Human Soul -- Infant -- Teaching a Child the Art of Confession -- The Machinery of the Soul -- Martyr -- The Wasted Day -- On Finding a Landscape I Painted as a Child -- The Buddha of Arithmetic -- IV -- Country Music -- Passing Through a Small Town -- Tornado -- The American Dream -- Bomb Shelter -- Shooting the Horse -- Tabloid Headlines -- Critic -- A Thousand Miles from Nowhere -- Reading to the Blind Man -- May I Interest You? -- Accordion Lessons -- The Id -- Testicles -- V -- Afternoon Nap -- Visitation -- Graveyard -- The Ambassador of the Dead -- The Art of Forgetting -- Poems That Can Only Be Written at Night -- The Slaves of My Ancestors -- Armor -- The Funeral of the Moon -- Warehouse -- Old Age -- Mushrooms -- High Water Mark -- The Immortal -- Acknowledgments.

Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. These fresh and unpredictable prose poems annouce the arrival of an exciting new voice. Every page is filled with unexpected delights. Winner, 2004 Best Books of Indiana (poetry category).

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