Dangling in the Tournefortia (1981)

Published as a poetry collection by Black Sparrow Press, 25/9/1981

Works in this Book

• The Lady In Red - pg. 13 - 1979
• The Stink - pg. 14
• The Lisp - pg. 15
• Silk - pg. 17 - 1977
• On Shooting - pg. 19
• Blue Collar Solitude - pg. 21
• Sick - pg. 23
• Immortals - pg. 24
• Independence Day - pg. 26
• One For Sherwood Anderson - pg. 31
• Fight On - pg. 32
• I Didn't Want To - pg. 35
• Nothing - pg. 39
• Taking Care Of The Big Whammy - pg. 44
• The Indian - pg. 47 - 1978
• Grace - pg. 50
• Love And Courage - pg. 51 - circa 1981
• Two Drunks - pg. 53
• Bad Press - pg. 58
• Yeah, Man? - pg. 59
• Ladies' Man - pg. 66
• Yrs., Anica - pg. 68
• Rock - pg. 71 - 1977
• Night School - pg. 72
• Platonic - pg. 74 - 1977
• Hello, Barbara - pg. 77 - 1977
• Genius - pg. 81
• Overt Population - pg. 85 - 1977
• Out Of The Mainstream - pg. 87
• Time Is Made To Be Wasted - pg. 89 - circa 1978
• We've Got To Communicate - pg. 92
• The Fast Life - pg. 95
• I Am A Reasonable Man - pg. 99
• Free Coffee - pg. 103
• Laugh - pg. 105
• Bad Fix - pg. 106 - circa 1978
• Maybe We'll See - pg. 108
• Pretty Boy - pg. 109
• The New Woman - pg. 116
• We Both Knew Him - pg. 120 - circa 1980
• Killer - pg. 123
• I Can't Stop - pg. 127
• Fasten Your Seat Belts - pg. 129
• Culture - pg. 131
• The Descent Of The Species - pg. 135
• Yes - pg. 138 - 1977
• Laid Up - pg. 141
• Within My Own Madness - pg. 143 - 1979
• Dead Again - pg. 144 - 1978
• Hell Yes, I'll Go - pg. 145
• A Little Sun - pg. 147
• Another Day - pg. 149
• A Gallon Of Gas - pg. 151
• Black And White Roach - pg. 157
• You Can Never Tell Who You're Going To Meet - pg. 159
• The Weather's Been Fair - pg. 162
• On The Hustle - pg. 163
• Attack And Retreat - pg. 166
• It's Strange - pg. 168 - 1977
• No Chance In Pomona - pg. 169
• A Poetry Reading - pg. 171
• True Confession - pg. 176
• Pick Six - pg. 178
• Fourteen Dollars And Thirty-Two Cents - pg. 182
• Snap Snap - pg. 184 - 1979
• Suckerfish - pg. 186
• The Sniveler - pg. 192
• Fear And Madness - pg. 194
• Drying Out - pg. 196
• There Are Hecklers In Germany Too - pg. 198
• Just Another Bad Affair - pg. 200
• The American Writer - pg. 202
• Sibelius And Etc. - pg. 203 - 1978
• The Woman From Germany - pg. 204 - 1977
• Parked - pg. 205
• At Vegas You Have To Put Up Two To Get One - pg. 207
• Dummy - pg. 208
• Virgins - pg. 210 - circa 1979
• Let Nothing Ever Happen - pg. 212 - 1980
• The Vampires - pg. 216
• Produced And Bottled By - pg. 219
• Retreat - pg. 221
• The Embracers - pg. 226
• The Cats Too - pg. 229
• Guava Tree - pg. 232 - 1979
• Getting My Money's Worth - pg. 234
• Guest - pg. 236
• War - pg. 239 - circa 1991
• Table For Two - pg. 241
• Let It Go - pg. 246
• Notes Upon A Hot Streak - pg. 248 - 1980
• Do You Use A Notebook? - pg. 250
• Smooth - pg. 252 - circa 1981
• Message - pg. 253
• They Ruin Your Day - pg. 254
• Order - pg. 256
• My Big Fling - pg. 258
• Contemporary Literature, One - pg. 261
• The Film Makers - pg. 265
• Slow Night - pg. 268
• The Secret Of My Endurance - pg. 270
• Too Late - pg. 271
• The Poets And The Foreman - pg. 272
• For The Little One - pg. 276 - 1980
• We Evolve - pg. 277
• The Man At The Piano - pg. 278
• Night Work - pg. 281

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