Fear of Dreaming : The Selected Poems
, by Carroll, Jim (Author)Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780140586954 | 0140586954
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/1993
Living at the Movies | p. 1 |
Blue Poles | p. 3 |
The Distances | p. 4 |
The Narrows | p. 6 |
August | p. 7 |
Traffic | p. 8 |
Styro | p. 9 |
Morning | p. 10 |
Next Door | p. 12 |
The Green Bus | p. 13 |
The Loft | p. 15 |
In the Valley | p. 16 |
The Burning of Bustin's Island | p. 17 |
Love Rockets | p. 18 |
The Other Garden | p. 19 |
Heroin | p. 21 |
Poem | p. 23 |
Birthday Poem | p. 24 |
Seltzer | p. 26 |
Living at the Movies | p. 27 |
Your Daughter | p. 29 |
Fragment: Little N.Y. Ode | p. 30 |
Cough Syrup | p. 31 |
One Flight Up | p. 32 |
How Relaxed | p. 33 |
For Ezra Pound | p. 34 |
The Blue Pill | p. 35 |
Blood Bridge | p. 36 |
Poem on My Son's Birthday | p. 37 |
Crossed Wires | p. 38 |
Leaving N.Y.C. | p. 39 |
A Fragment | p. 40 |
Vacation | p. 41 |
A Short Reminder | p. 43 |
Gliding | p. 45 |
To a Poetess | p. 47 |
The Cosmopolitan Sense | p. 50 |
Growing Up | p. 52 |
Poem | p. 53 |
Cold Faces | p. 54 |
To the Secret Poets of Kansas | p. 55 |
Jet Fizzle | p. 56 |
Sea Battle | p. 57 |
An Early Morning Crucifixion | p. 58 |
Invisible Sleep | p. 59 |
Sure. . . | p. 61 |
Fear and Trembling | p. 62 |
After St. John of the Cross | p. 64 |
Little Ode on St. Anne's Day | p. 66 |
Chop Chop | p. 67 |
Silver Mirrors | p. 68 |
Highway Report | p. 69 |
Dog Crunch | p. 71 |
Love Poem (Later) | p. 72 |
California Poem | p. 73 |
Withdrawal Letter | p. 74 |
Maybe I'm Amazed | p. 76 |
Mercury Clouds | p. 78 |
New Year 1970 | p. 79 |
Midnight | p. 80 |
Prell | p. 81 |
Back Home | p. 82 |
For Sue's Birthday | p. 83 |
Song | p. 85 |
Poem | p. 86 |
Love Story | p. 87 |
In This Room Particularly | p. 88 |
The Tenth Try | p. 89 |
Love Poem | p. 90 |
For Your Birthday | p. 91 |
On the Rush | p. 93 |
Words from Babylon | p. 94 |
Torn Canvas | p. 95 |
The Birth and Death of the Sun | p. 96 |
It Doesn't Matter | p. 97 |
Chelsea May | p. 98 |
Savage Bubbles | p. 99 |
Paregoric Babies | p. 101 |
An Apple at Dawn | p. 102 |
The Book of Nods | p. 105 |
Trained Monkey | p. 107 |
With van Gogh | p. 108 |
A Poet Dies | p. 110 |
Homage to Gerard Manley Hopkins | p. 112 |
Watching the Schoolyard | p. 117 |
Guitar Voodoo | p. 118 |
My Father's Vacation | p. 122 |
Quality | p. 123 |
Post Office | p. 124 |
The Ice Capades | p. 126 |
"The Academy of the Future Is Opening Its Doors . . ." | p. 127 |
Parting the Reeds | p. 128 |
The Lakes of Sligo | p. 129 |
Lenses | p. 130 |
A Beach Landing | p. 131 |
Zeno's Final Paradox | p. 132 |
Paraguay | p. 133 |
The Safe Corridor | p. 134 |
Rimbaud Scenes: | p. 136 |
Rimbaud's Tooth Ache | p. 136 |
Rimbaud Sees the Dentist | p. 137 |
Waking in a Painter's Loft in Paris | p. 138 |
Rimbaud Running Guns | p. 138 |
Rimbaud Pays Homage to Saint Helena | p. 140 |
Confederate Lake | p. 142 |
One Hundred Years of Boredom | p. 143 |
Silent Money | p. 144 |
Scouting | p. 146 |
Five Irresponsible Students of Zen | p. 147 |
The Buddha Reveals Himself | p. 149 |
Me, Myself, and I | p. 150 |
Teeth Marks | p. 151 |
Reaching France | p. 153 |
In the Law Library | p. 154 |
In the Capital | p. 155 |
Stepping Out of M.O.M.A. | p. 156 |
Days | p. 157 |
The Transient | p. 164 |
Just Visiting | p. 167 |
New York City Variations | p. 171 |
Poems 1973-1985 | p. 195 |
Poem | p. 197 |
Winter's Age | p. 198 |
For Elizabeth | p. 199 |
Prologue | p. 201 |
M. Verdoux, The Wife Killer | p. 202 |
A Night Outing | p. 203 |
Wing and Claw | p. 204 |
The Ad Man's Daughter | p. 205 |
Saint Theresa | p. 206 |
In Four Seasons | p. 207 |
Dead Salamander's Song | p. 208 |
Painting by Flashlight | p. 209 |
Heroes | p. 210 |
Nightclubbing | p. 211 |
Post-Modernism | p. 212 |
The Caves | p. 213 |
Judging the Pageant | p. 214 |
El Hombre del Ombre | p. 215 |
A Window in Cherry Valley | p. 216 |
On Tour | p. 217 |
Dueling the Monkey | p. 218 |
A Child Growing Up with the Sun | p. 219 |
For John Donne | p. 220 |
Eugene, Oregon | p. 221 |
Our Desires | p. 222 |
My Debt | p. 223 |
On Susan's Birthday | p. 224 |
Poem | p. 225 |
Dresden to Chesapeake Bay | p. 226 |
In the Deep Green Vase | p. 227 |
Poem | p. 228 |
The New Death | p. 229 |
The Runners | p. 231 |
3 Short Poems: | p. 232 |
Poem | p. 232 |
Compassion | p. 232 |
Cinco de Mayo | p. 232 |
Things That Fly | p. 233 |
For Robert Smithson | p. 234 |
Borges Death Mask | p. 235 |
The Desert Casino | p. 236 |
Music Television | p. 237 |
Sleeplessness | p. 238 |
In the Gears | p. 239 |
New Work 1989-1993 | p. 241 |
Curtis's Charm | p. 243 |
A Perfect Stranger | p. 255 |
I Am Not Kurt Schwitters | p. 257 |
Calm Under Fire | p. 259 |
Fear of Dreaming | p. 260 |
Poem | p. 261 |
Epiphany | p. 262 |
Inauguration Day | p. 264 |
In Time, AIDS | p. 266 |
Song | p. 267 |
Evening News | p. 268 |
Praying Mantis | p. 269 |
Micky | p. 270 |
To the National Endowment for the Arts | p. 271 |
Coda | p. 273 |
About the Author | p. 275 |
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