Bibliograph

Real things, an anthology of popular culture in American poetry, edited by Jim Elledge and Susan Swartwout

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Label

Real things, an anthology of popular culture in American poetry, edited by Jim Elledge and Susan Swartwout

Language

eng

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Real things

Oclc number

39539240

Responsibility statement

edited by Jim Elledge and Susan Swartwout

Sub title

an anthology of popular culture in American poetry

Table Of Contents

David Trinidad. The shower scene in Psycho -- Lucille Clifton. Note, passed to Superman -- Rafael Campo. Superman is dead -- Patricia Spear Jones. If I were Rita Hayworth -- Kathleen de Azevedo. Famous women-Claudette Colbert -- Connie Deanovich. Frankenstein -- David Wojahn. Francis Ford Coppola and anthropologist interpreter teaching Gartewienna tribesmen to sing "Light my fire" Phillipine jungle, 1978 -- Kitty Tsui. Suzy Wong's been dead a long time -- Joseph Like. James Dean & the pig -- Sharon Olds. The death of Marilyn Monroe -- Sherman Alexie. November 22, 1983 -- David Lehman. The difference between Pepsi and Coke -- Kyoki Mori. Barbie says math is hard -- Rita Dove. After reading Mickey in the night kitchen for the third time before bed -- Kristy Nielsen. Self portrait as Nancy Drew, girl sleuth -- Audre Lorde. The day they eulogized Mahalia -- Jonathan Holden. Liberace -- Joy Harjo. We encounter Nat King Cole as we invent the future -- Hessica Hagedorn. Motown / Smokey Robinson -- Gary Soto. Dizzy girls in the Sixties -- Paula Gunn Allen. Teaching poetry at Votech High, Sante Fe, the week John Lennon was shot -- Yusef Komunyakaa. Never land -- Dennis Cooper. David Cassidy then -- Tim Dlugos. Gilligan's Island -- Allen Ginsberg. A supermarket in California -- Maureen Owen. For Emily (Dickinson) -- Louis Phillips. My son shows me a photograph of Michael Jordan performing a slam dunk -- Mark Doty. Days of 1981 -- James tate. The motorcyclists -- Louise erdrich. The lady in the pink Mustang -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Lost parents -- David Starkey. Scrabble -- Sandra McPherson. Pornography, Nebraska

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