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Balladz
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Publication Date
2022.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First edition.
1. Quarantine. Quarantine morning --
May 14, 2020 --
My hand --
Quarantine --
8 steps of 2 steps down --
After --
Anatomy lesson for the officer --
My head and my mother's breast in quarantine together --
Centipede --
Yes --
Quarantine argiope --
Not once --
Meditation during the sufferings and deaths of others --
Before the electric traps arrived --
Isolation liverwurst --
Quarantine fast --
Narcissus takes another look at household tasks --
Monday, November 2, 2020 --
Quarantine puzzle --
Narcissus in quarantine --
339th morning of my easy quarantine --
X-ray & rats --
New Year's song --
Sprung trap --
Spotted aria --
When I looked out --
A song near the end of the world --
2. Amherst balladz. Let us play - yesterday --
You did not sell - the blueing --
I did not shave - to visit your town --
I slept - in your town - behind a door --
In one double-glaze pane --
The air - was close - the pane --slid high --
Outside your room - in the wain's coat --
At the center of your room --
No Jack I - nor killed a joint --
When I came to Emily's - house - late --
3. Balladz. Best friend ballad --
Ballad of the chair --
Grandmother with parakeet --
Paper doll ballad, for Fats --
Crazy Sharon talks to the bishop --
Ballad of once Mike Carter --
Cuckoo ballad --
Joined ballad --
Snap pants off like --
Spectrum ballad --
Ballad of the blossoming branch --
Ballad of EIGHMIWAY --
Subway ballad --
Dear Stanley --
Ballad torn apart --
Geraldine Dodge ballad --
Ms. Turbation --
Not extinct yet --
Hair ballad --
Rubber shower mat ballad --
Handerchief ballad --
Epidermis ballad --
4. Album from a previous existence. If I had been able --
Genesis --
My mother's meat grinder --
Her portrait --
Bad & Crazy --
When they told me God could read my mind --
Tender bitter --
In praise of the tear glands --
Goodbye --
What came next after our father's death --
Ghazal confessional --
White boy in pajamas, BIg Sur Inn, Gulf War --
The communicant --
Biance helps me clean my attic --
5 o'clock face --
Improv --
If I were to sing myself --
Into Tahoe --
This is just to say --
To Chase, after the diagnosis --
To Chase, during her surgery --
All of a sudden I see, and my heart sinks --
What I look like --
Dream near the end --
5. Elegies. Transformations --
Her brother --
Confessional (for S.B.) --
That Goddess --
Wasn't afraid --
Looking for Galway on the Vermont Mountainside --
Suddenly --
After reading Shallcross --
When they say you have maybe three months left --
Heroin --
When the cancer has come back, sleeping in his house with him but not in his bed with him --
His birthday --
His voice, a week before his spirits follows his voice out --
Three views of him asleep, his final days --
The preparing --
The box --
After an epitaph on an English headstone --
Can't sleep --
Komodo.
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Contributors
Olds, Sharon Author
ISBN
9781524711610
9780525656968
9780525656951
9780525656968
9780525656951
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