Full Description
In a poetry at once political, erotic, and powerfully lyrical, Floyce Alexander writes, as he told Rolling Stone, of "a generation of orphans . . . our legacy an American dream become more than a nightmare, a death to be lived through, with whatever utopia that may be possible our only common integer of survival."
Contents
The Bones of VerseFlowers of AmsterdamThe Bones of War
Bones in the Flames--House Made of Rock--My Father's Playgrounds--Thanatopsis--Kansas of Oz--Many Childhoods--Dream--St. Charles Suite--Serenade--Song--Bellocq's Daybook
Among the Pharisees--The Demons--Guerrilla--De Memoria / By Heart--Where I Work--Two Worlds--Las Pipas--Amulet--Rosa y Mariposa Hermosa, y Fosa--The Void--San Diego 1971, Managua 1983--El Mojado--Love's Alibi--Words That Are Hard to Say--Blood Rivers--Love's Bones--Peasant: A Triptych--Diptych
Memory of the Future--Boy in the Library--To Those Doomed by My Hometown--Under Horse Heaven Hills--Janis--Turtle--Manse--Arrowhead--Yesenin and Isadora, Mayakovsky and Lili--Abiquiu--Calling the Heart Home--Memory of the Future--Endsong--Below the Ozone Layer--Blackbird--Dream of Cesar Vallejo