Notes for my body double

90 Pages·2002·0.566 MB·Dutch, English

by  Elion, Christine, McDonell, Nick

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Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry | Editor: Hilda Raz
University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln and London
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Paul Guest
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“For a Woman’s Back” is reprinted from Prairie
Schooner vol. 78, no. 3 (fall 2004) by permission of
the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 2004
by the University of Nebraska Press.
© 2007 by the Board of Regents of the University
of Nebraska. All rights reserved. Manufactured in
the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Guest, Paul.
Notes for my body double / Paul Guest.
p. cm. — (Prairie schooner book prize in poetry)
isbn 978-0-8032-6035-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title.
ps3607.u47n68 2007
811'.6 — dc22 2006101404
Designed and set in Janson by A. Shahan.
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Contents
vii Acknowledgements
1 Nothing
2 Plenitude
4 Elba
5 On Being Asked Who the You Is in My Poems
7 Questions for Godzilla
9 The Invisible Man Looks into a Mirror
11 Beyond Repair
12 Minus
14 History
15 Psalm in Rain
17 Romance
19 Negation
21 At Last
23 The Naked
25 Daydreaming of Ghosts
27 The God of Neglect, Overheard
29 From the Black Lagoon
31 How It Won't Be
32 Seduction with Entropy
34 Veneration
35 Apologia
37 In Praise of the Defective
39 Exit Interview
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41 Resignation
42 The Cartoonist in Hell
44 My Philosophy of Other Lives
45 Donald Duck's Lament
47 Popular Romance
49 These Arms of Mine
51 Such as Myself
53 Poem for the National Hobo Association
Poetry Contest
55 Notes for My Body Double
57 Questions for Silence
59 For a Woman's Back
61 Ode
63 Perfume
64 Erasure
66 Poem in Which I Seek Consolation
in the Etymology of a Word
67 Hunger
69 The Numbers Are Not In
71 Love Poem
73 Water
74 Ptolemaic Sunset
75 Lullaby
77 Practice
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Acknowledgments
The Adirondack Review: “Notes for My Body Double”
American Literary Review: “These Arms of Mine”
The American Poetry Journal: “Love Poem”
Backwards City Review: “Poem in Which I Seek Consola-
tion in the Etymology of a Word”
Blue Mesa Review: “Erasure” and “On Being Asked
Who the You Is in My Poems”
Crazyhorse: “From the Black Lagoon,” “The Naked,”
“Plenitude,” and “Poem for the National Hobo
Association Poetry Contest”
diagram: “Donald Duck’s Lament”
42opus: “How It Won’t Be”
The Greensboro Review: “Daydreaming of Ghosts” (vol. 72
[fall 2002])
Gulf Coast: “Popular Romance”
Hayden’s Ferry Review: “Psalm in Rain”
Hunger Mountain: “Questions for Godzilla”
In Posse Review: “Perfume”
lit: “The Cartoonist in Hell” and “Elba”
LitRag: “My Philosophy of Other Lives” and “Resignation”
Lyric: “Beyond Repair,” “Negation,” “Romance,” and
“Veneration”
New Orleans Review: “Ptolemaic Sunset”
Octopus: “Apologia”
Passages North: “Hunger” and “The Numbers Are
Not In” (vol. 27, no. 1 [winter 2006])
Pebble Lake Review: “Seduction with Entropy”
Poetry: “Lullaby” and “Ode”
Prairie Schooner: “For a Woman’s Back”
Slate: “The Invisible Man Looks into a Mirror” and
“Water”
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The Southern Review: “Questions for Silence” and “Such
as Myself ” (vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 700-703)
Swink: “Minus”
Verse: “The God of Neglect, Overheard”
West Branch: “At Last,” “Exit Interview,” “Nothing”
Willow Springs: “History”
My thanks to Rodney Jones, Rick Jackson, Lucia Perillo,
Bob Hicok, Ed Brunner, Allison Joseph, Joel Brouwer,
Bruce Smith, Victoria Chang, Aimee Nezhukumatathil,
Cynthia Roth, Matt Guenette, Adrian Matejka, Stacey
Brown, Brett Griffi ths, Ander Monson, Ted Worozbyt,
Sophia Kartsonis, C. Dale Young, Oliver de la Paz,
Melissa McCool, Suzanne Frischkorn, Jeanine Hall
Gailey, Amy Blache, Mark Womack, Chris Kerley,
Bradley Paul, Karri Paul, Laurel Snyder, Betsy Taylor,
Chad Davidson, Erica Bernheim, Jennifer Weathers,
Heather Ryan, Ruth Ann Daugherty, Stephanie Walker,
and Eliot Khalil Wilson.
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Notes For My Body Double
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