Читать книгу Pleasure Dome - Yusef Komunyakaa - Страница 8

Contents

New Poems

Providence 3

Water 5

Jasmine 5

The Whispering Gallery 6

Tuesday Night at the Savoy Ballroom 7

Doppelgängers 8

Somewhere 9

Never Land 11

Pepper 12

South Carolina Morning 13

Rendezvous 14

Once the Dream Begins 17

Ogoni 18

Keeper of the Vigil 21

Nightbird 22

Tenebrae 23

Double Limbo 25

NJ Transit 26

Early Uncollected

Mississippi John Hurt 31

Langston Hughes 31

Blue Tonality 32

De Síntoma Profundo 32

Lover 33

Reminiscence 33

Waiting for a Tree Through a Window 34

The Lamp Carrier 34

The Life & Times of Billy Boy 35

A House of Snow 36

Recital of Water Over Stones 36

The Dog’s Theology 37

They Say in Yellow Jacket 37

When Men Can’t Trust Hands with Wood 38

Birthday Song 38

Legacy 39

Eye Witness 39

Unnatural Deaths 40

A Different Story 40

One-Breath Song 41

Frontal Lobe Postscript 41

Sagittarius Approaching Thirty-Five 42

Cubism 42

Insinuations 43

Loneliness 43

Dedications & Other Darkhorses

Returning the Borrowed Road 47

Chair Gallows 47

Allegorical Seduction 48

Under House Arrest 49

Translating Footsteps 49

Urban Renewal 50

Magpies 51

The Tongue Is 52

Ten Speeds 52

(E)Motion 53

Observatory 54

Lost in the Bonewheel Factory

Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes 57

Floor Plans 57

Tour Guide 58

Sitting in a Rocking Chair, Going Blind 59

Pushing in All the Buttons 60

Confessing My Ignorance 60

1938 61

S & M 62

Stepfather: A Girl’s Song 62

Stepmother: A Boy’s Song 63

No Love in This House 64

High on Sadness 64

Sunbather 65

Apprenticeship 66

Light on the Subject 66

Punchdrunk 67

Vigilante 68

Nothing to Do with Janice Drake 68

Reconstructing a Crime 69

Two 70

Beg Song 71

Death Threat Note 72

Child Stealer 72

A Poet Whose Photo Never Grows Old 73

Poetics 74

Imagination 75

Ghost Chant, et alii 76

Passions 77

The Dog Act 79

For You, Sweetheart, I’ll Sell Plutonium Reactors 80

Feet Nailed to the Floor 81

The Nazi Doll 82

Breaking Camp 82

Corrigenda 83

Copacetic

False Leads 87

Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror 87

The Way the Cards Fall 89

Reflections 90

Annabelle 90

Faith Healer 91

More Girl Than Boy 92

April Fools’ Day 93

Untitled Blues 94

Jumping Bad Blues 95

Initials on Aspens 96

Family Tree 96

Instructions for Building Straw Huts 99

An Exchange Student Awaits the Arrival of an African Princess 99

Back Then 100

Blasphemy 101

Lost Wax 102

Safe Subjects 104

Black String of Days 105

Eleemosynary 106

Speaking of Luck 107

Villon/Leadbelly 108

Borinken Blues 109

Let’s Say 109

Elegy for Thelonious 110

Copacetic Mingus 111

Letter to Bob Kaufman 112

Woman, I Got the Blues 113

Street Cool Clara 114

Newport Beach, 1979 115

Gloria’s Clues 115

Charmed 116

Captain Diable’s Receptionist 117

The Cage Walker 118

Addendum 119

Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival 119

By Proxy 120

1931 121

The Leper’s Bell 122

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival 122

Toys in a Field

Nothing Big 129

Ambush 129

Water Buffalo 130

Monsoon Season 131

Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring 132

Toys in a Field 133

Please 134

Returning (1975) 135

I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head

Unnatural State of the Unicorn 139

Lightshow 139

Sorrow 140

Touch-up Man 141

How I See Things 142

Insufficient Blue 143

The Thorn Merchant 144

The Thorn Merchant’s Right-Hand Man 145

After the Heart’s Interrogation 146

Happy-Go-Lucky’s Wolf Skull Dream Mask 146

The Heart’s Graveyard Shift 147

Hard Up 149

Boy Wearing a Dead Man’s Clothes 149

Gift Horse 151

The Music That Hurts 152

When in Rome—Apologia 153

The Thorn Merchant’s Wife 154

The Thorn Merchant’s Mistress 155

Somewhere Else 156

After Summer Fell Apart 157

Uncertainty in Blue 158

The Brain to the Heart 160

Audacity of the Lower Gods 161

The Falling-Down Song 161

Syzygy 162

The Thorn Merchant’s Son 163

I Apologize 163

1984 164

Dreambook Bestiary 168

Two Cranial Murals 171

Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga’s Dream 172

Landscape for the Disappeared 172

Articulation & Class 174

In the Labor Camp of Good Intentions 174

Good Joe 174

Making Out with the Dream-Shredding Machine 176

In the Background of Silence 176

Cinderella at Big Sur 177

Born Pretty in a Poor Country 178

Olympia 179

“Everybody’s Reading Li Po” Silkscreened on a Purple T-Shirt 179

For the Walking Dead 181

Too Pretty for Serious Business 182

Child’s Play 182

Raw Data for an Unfinished Questionnaire 183

The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations 184

Dien Cai Dau

Camouflaging the Chimera 191

Tunnels 192

Somewhere Near Phu Bai 193

Starlight Scope Myopia 194

Red Pagoda 195

A Greenness Taller Than Gods 196

The Dead at Quang Tri 197

Hanoi Hannah 198

Roll Call 199

Fragging 199

“You and I Are Disappearing” 200

2527th Birthday of the Buddha 201

Re-creating the Scene 202

Night Muse & Mortar Round 204

One More Loss to Count 204

Sappers 206

Nude Pictures 206

We Never Know 207

A Break from the Bush 208

Seeing in the Dark 209

Tu Do Street 209

Communiqué 211

The Edge 212

Donut Dollies 213

Prisoners 214

Jungle Surrender 216

Eyeball Television 217

The One-legged Stool 218

Short-timer’s Calendar 220

Thanks 221

To Have Danced with Death 222

Report from the Skull’s Diorama 223

Combat Pay for Jody 225

Sunset Threnody 226

After the Fall 227

Saigon Bar Girls, 1975 228

Boat People 229

Bui Doi, Dust of Life 230

Missing in Action 231

Losses 232

Between Days 233

Facing It 234

February in Sydney

Under the Harbour Bridge 239

The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally 240

Rocks Push 241

The Plea 242

When Loneliness Is a Man 244

A Quality of Light 245

Gerry’s Jazz 246

Boxing Day 247

Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage 249

A Delicate Conspiracy 250

The Cops Call Him Charlie 251

Frank’s Poem 251

Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel 252

February in Sydney 254

Magic City

Venus’s-flytraps 257

The Whistle 258

Playthings 261

Yellow Dog Café 265

Happiness 266

Seasons Between Yes & No 267

Glory 268

April’s Anarchy 269

The Millpond 270

Immolatus 272

Banking Potatoes 274

The Smokehouse 274

The Steel Plate 275

Sunday Afternoons 277

Looking for Choctaw 278

Fleshing-out the Season 279

Blackberries 280

Yellowjackets 281

Gristmill 282

History Lessons 282

Temples of Smoke 284

Boys in Dresses 285

Nude Tango 286

Touch 287

Sugar 288

Albino 289

Halloween, the Late Fifties 290

Mismatched Shoes 292

My Father’s Love Letters 293

The Cooling Board 294

Omen 295

Believing in Iron 296

Salomé 297

Between Angels & Monsters 298

Poetics of Paperwood 299

Slam, Dunk, & Hook 300

Sex, Magnolias, & Speed 301

Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense 302

Nocturne 304

Butterfly-toed Shoes 304

Neon Vernacular

Fog Galleon 309

At the Screen Door 309

Moonshine 311

Salt 312

Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen 313

Work 316

Praising Dark Places 317

A Good Memory 318

Birds on a Powerline 328

Fever 329

Little Man Around the House 332

Songs for My Father 333

Thieves of Paradise

Memory Cave 343

Out There There Be Dragons 344

The Song Thief 345

Wet Nurse 346

Ode to a Drum 347

Eclogue at Daybreak 348

Genealogy 349

Kosmos 350

Confluence 352

Palimpsest 354

Mumble Peg 364

Ia Drang Valley 365

Cenotaph 366

The Trapper’s Bride 367

Eclogue at Twilight 367

The Tally 369

Heroes of Waterloo 370

Wokanmagulli 371

Waratah 372

New Gold Mountain 373

White Lady 374

Meditations on a Dingo 375

Report from the Lucky Country 376

In the Mirror 377

The Piccolo 378

John Says 379

Corners of Night 380

Messages 382

Visitation 382

Bennelong’s Blues 383

Quatrains for Ishi 384

The Glass Ark 388

Nude Interrogation 393

The Poplars 394

Surgery 394

Phantasmagoria 395

A Summer Night in Hanoi 399

A Reed Boat 400

Buried Light 401

The Hanoi Market 401

Shrines 402

Frontispiece 403

Breasts 404

The Deck 404

Ghost Video 405

Phantom Limbs 406

Dream Animal 407

Testimony 407

Blessing the Animals 418

Rhythm Method 420

The Parrot Asylum 421

The Thorn Merchant’s Daughter 422

The Monkey House 423

Dolphy’s Aviary 424

Crack 425

No-Good Blues 427

Sandhog 430

The Wall 431

A Story 432

What Counts 432

Woebegone 433

Strands 434

Anodyne 435

Index of Titles and First Lines 437