Watermelon Kindness : Poetry.

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- LIFE STYLES -- Mariner -- At the Café de Kahlua on West St. Clair -- Iraq -- Obama's iPod -- A Poet in the Kitchen -- Watermelon Kindness -- It Was Before Your Time -- The Truth -- Life Enthusiasts -- Breaking Up with Miriam Mulstein -- Platforms -- Poems I've Thought of Writing -- Your Effulgence Disorients Me -- Facing the Streetcars -- Drunken Horses -- Scarlett Johansson -- Watermelon Summer -- Poetry Reading, Oak Park, Ill. -- Behold the Lillies of the Field -- Remember Sean? -- In/Out -- Titles -- It's Lonely at the Top -- A Comic Moment Toward the End of a Serious Relationship -- A Slightly Stoned Descartes -- Bright Red Numbers on a Digital Morning Clock -- Grants -- Lateral Interference in Daily Life -- I'm Not Walking in Circles -- She Thinks Zen Is Too Intellectual -- Ibid. -- Wills -- On Getting Over a Depression -- Book City on a Saturday Morning -- Neu Gedichte -- People Who Make the Scene -- How to Become a Better Person -- Dismissiveness -- Are Most of Us a Little Crazy? -- 10 Reasons Not to Buy a Smart Car -- How to Save Your Life -- Dizzy -- TAKE ME TO THE RIVER -- To Die For -- Djuna Barnes -- Accounting -- I Guess Baseball Players Wear Baseball Caps -- ABC -- Marco Polo in China -- Fuses -- Kansas -- Did Blavatsky Ever Meet Edward VII? -- Legzzz -- Fluid Motion -- Spreading the Word -- The Nature of Language -- Kiev Is Dark at Night and Very Historic. They Have Warm Lakes to the South. -- Unforgettable Men -- Some Shocks Are Delicious -- Well-educated Well-read Young Writer Who Can't Finish His First Novel Because He's Obviously Distracted -- Jack -- Cool -- Traffic -- The 2 Giovannis -- Free Fall -- October -- Men -- OBAMA POEMS -- George the 3rd Plus His Madness -- The Differences Between Us -- Obama Campaigning -- Pre-emptive Strike -- The Significance of State.

Midwestern, Leaning East to Seaboard -- Little Moron -- Bruce's Yams -- An NFB Full of Luminous Still Photographs -- Blue Skies &amp -- Opera -- Jaffa Oranges Are Sweet -- Amazing &amp -- Innocent -- Caricature -- Driving All the Way to Tibet -- You -- Trends That Didn't Start in America -- Painters Who Were Not Exactly Put Out of Business by Jackson Pollock's Relative Success in 1942 -- The Great Philosophers Don't Listen to Enough Coltrane -- Computer Files -- Rust Never Sleeps -- Afrika/Afrique -- A Couple of Interesting Brothers -- Geraldine -- Gerald Murphy -- North of 60 -- Einstein &amp -- Daily Life -- Back Cover.

from “North of 60” Angels are aliens in spaceships. Angels descend and eagles soar. I am not an eagle. If I were an angel I would descend and give you of the bread of happiness the salt of anger & the message you already know better than I know: the moon & the lakes & the hills are forever. The much-anticipated Watermelon Kindness, David Donnell’s first new collection in six years, comes from a part of the country that’s somewhere between Archie Bunker and Dale Peck — a contentious, but genial place. With more range than any other contemporary poet, Donnell ponders questions of art, history, and psychology while reveling in the sensory and all that makes us real. Whether exploring the modus operandi of other writers or paralleling the trajectory of a satellite with everyday occurrences like lost money, badly ended love affairs, or political disappointment, Watermelon Kindness is the Roman padda, a tough individual loaf approximately the size of your hand. Always concerned with what’s most nourishing — why we’re as crazy as we are crazy — it’s forty percent crust, because crust is almost always the best of it.

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