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Hot Weather, Selected Poems
Hot Weather: Poems Selected and New
Selected Poems, Hardcover, 1982, from the Poets Now series, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Metuchen, NJ and London.
See: My Works for reviews of this book.
Selected Works
Novel
Wild Dreams of Reality
A story of Love, Obsession, and Liberation.
Memoir
A Body Divided: a memoir about growing up with Polio.
The story of a one-armed boy becoming a man in a two-fisted world
Poetry
Chairman
Sequence of poems about Chairman Mao, written from Chinese posters.
Puppet X
Long 65 page sequence by a Puppet without a name, thus the "X" of its generation
Osiris
Sequence of poems, based on Egyptian theme
Hot Weather: Poems Selected and New
Poems from Selected Books, up to 1982
Chaucer Marginalia
Experimental language poems
Light
Poems mostly based on paintings
Poetry, gift book
Homeowner Haikus
Humorous haikus about homeownership
prose poems
Lenin's Paintings
A sequence of poems by a narrator who's been told to appraise paintings by V. Lenin, though he didn't know Lenin painted.
Quick Links
The poet reading poems in New York City, Sept 2009
now on youtube
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