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The Floating Bridge.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pitt Poetry SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (84 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822990765
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Floating BridgeDDC classification:
  • 811.6
LOC classification:
  • PS3569
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Far Villages -- Manniquins -- Kafka -- The Next Village -- Big Brother Loses His Virginity -- Fresh Fish -- Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat -- Don Quixote -- Metaphors -- Translating a Poem -- The Overwhelming Sadness of the Earth -- Plum -- Wisdom -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- Learning to Eat a Pomegranate -- The Yellow Bird -- Picasso -- The Headless Saints -- The Amateur Zen Master -- Trapped Inside of a Haiku Poem -- The Island of Nirvana -- Rain -- The Dreams of Children -- Trains -- The Long Road -- The Bible Belt -- The Bible Belt -- The Gods -- The Ladders of Purgatory -- Drawing Jesus -- Jesus's IQ -- Seduction -- The Jewish Ghetto -- Boarding the Bus to Gomorrah -- Om -- Zero -- Halo -- The House of Death -- Paris -- The Bedouins of Paris -- Spring in Paris -- Lucifer -- The Kissing Institute -- Pornography -- French Forign Legion -- Gertrude Stein's Gardener -- Dying Park -- The Gates of Paris -- An American in Paris -- Paris, USA -- The Floating Bridge -- The Floating Bridge -- Making a Forest -- A Visit with Dali -- North Wind -- Children's Book Illustrations, Circa 1890 -- Learning Italian Slowly -- A Poem I Wrote Thirty Years Ago -- Chinese Restaurant -- Welcome Home, Children -- The History of the Umbrella -- While I Sleep -- The Fish -- Acknowledgements.
Summary: The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. We take the night bus to Gomorrah to have a look around. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Our world shifts. The commonplace begins to glow. We turn the page. Another bridge awaits.
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Intro -- Contents -- Far Villages -- Manniquins -- Kafka -- The Next Village -- Big Brother Loses His Virginity -- Fresh Fish -- Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat -- Don Quixote -- Metaphors -- Translating a Poem -- The Overwhelming Sadness of the Earth -- Plum -- Wisdom -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- The Orange Flags of Babylon -- Learning to Eat a Pomegranate -- The Yellow Bird -- Picasso -- The Headless Saints -- The Amateur Zen Master -- Trapped Inside of a Haiku Poem -- The Island of Nirvana -- Rain -- The Dreams of Children -- Trains -- The Long Road -- The Bible Belt -- The Bible Belt -- The Gods -- The Ladders of Purgatory -- Drawing Jesus -- Jesus's IQ -- Seduction -- The Jewish Ghetto -- Boarding the Bus to Gomorrah -- Om -- Zero -- Halo -- The House of Death -- Paris -- The Bedouins of Paris -- Spring in Paris -- Lucifer -- The Kissing Institute -- Pornography -- French Forign Legion -- Gertrude Stein's Gardener -- Dying Park -- The Gates of Paris -- An American in Paris -- Paris, USA -- The Floating Bridge -- The Floating Bridge -- Making a Forest -- A Visit with Dali -- North Wind -- Children's Book Illustrations, Circa 1890 -- Learning Italian Slowly -- A Poem I Wrote Thirty Years Ago -- Chinese Restaurant -- Welcome Home, Children -- The History of the Umbrella -- While I Sleep -- The Fish -- Acknowledgements.

The Floating Bridge, David Shumate's second collection of prose poems, transports its readers over the chasm between the mundane and the enchanted. We traverse one bridge and find ourselves eavesdropping on Gertrude Stein and her gardener. We take the night bus to Gomorrah to have a look around. Halfway across, each bridge vanishes beneath our feet. Our world shifts. The commonplace begins to glow. We turn the page. Another bridge awaits.

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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.

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