Heaven and Earth Holding Company.

Intro -- Contents -- I . . . must i remember? . . . -- Undiscovering America -- Girl with Her Tongue Stuck Out -- Just a Tranquil Darker -- When Dylan Left Hibbing, Minnesota, August 1959 -- High Tide -- Romance -- Keats -- Upon Reading in Elmore Leonard's The Hot Kid that Church Pews in the 1930s Were Made by Convicts -- Killing Mice, December -- Sorrow -- Watson -- Upon Reading that Abraham Lincoln Spent His Summer Nights as President at a Cottage on the Grounds of the Soldiers' Home on the Outskirts of Washington rather than at the White House, and that He and Edwin M. Stanton, His Secretary of War, Spent the Better Part of One Evening in 1864 Freeing Two Peacocks that Had Become Entangled in a Tree -- Love Field -- Poem to Be Read at 30,000 Feet -- Man Drowns -- Overflow -- Witness -- Them Shoes -- Elvis, 1955 -- On the Occasion of My Two-Year-Old Granddaughter's First Attempts at an Elvis Impression, I Recall the Diffculties of Her Birth -- II . . . crawling between . . . -- At the Optometrist's Office -- Night Rain -- After the Reading, Driving Back to Massachusetts with Jim Beschta, I Think of the Men Who Hold the World in Their Hands -- Sleep Comes to Mary Todd Lincoln -- Driving Back from Crotched Mountain, Winter Storm, New Year's Eve -- Brief History -- For the Man with the Erection Lasting More than Four Hours -- Upon Reading that a Noisy Cloth Factory Separated the Family Homes of Sandro Botticelli and Amerigo Vespucci -- On Bethlehem's Plain -- Look, Look -- For Lou Bishop, the Drunk Who Lived up the Road -- History -- Throwing Out the Marriage Bed -- News -- Teachers -- Lisbon -- Sirhan Sirhan -- The Grief Counselor's Day Off -- Finding My Dead Father at the Worcester Art Museum -- III . . . in your philosophy . . . -- Girl on the People Mover -- Cross-Country -- Yale -- Saints -- Bootleg -- Mr. Muckle.

Upon Reading on a Flight from Atlanta the Latest Slang Term for the Act of Defecation -- Upon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me at the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive -- Upon Reading a Poem Entitled "Upon Seeing a Former Lover Pull Up Next to Me at the Intersection of Metaphysics Lane and Memorial Drive" -- On Hardly Ever Hearing Anyone Say Boy, Howdy Anymore -- Easter -- Blind Boy, Fourth of July -- London Letter after the Subway Bombing -- Jackstaff, Jackstraw (tack and jib) -- Dog Dying -- Upon Reading that Tatiana Yakovleva, Mayakovsky's Lover, Separated from Him by the Stalin Purges, Had Married and Was Four Months Pregnant when Mayakovsky Killed Himself -- Declaration -- Acknowledgements.

"Heaven & Earth Holding Company contains a plentitude of delights. Like little stories told in the night, these poems are clear narratives crossed by mysterious shadows. And Hodgen's tone occupies a singular place at the intersection of funky wit and true feeling."--Billy Collins.

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