Plash & levitation: poems - Tavel, Adam, author; University of Alaska Press, publisher (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015)
I. Blizzard Sweat -- Having Drunk Two-Thirds of a Bottle of Riesling during Her Office Hours, Professor Adler Lectures on the Venus of Willendorf -- Our Currency of Air -- The Young Painter Rejects Eakins' Gross Clinic, 1875 -- Aubade for Sesame Street at 3:27 a.m. Ending with a Line from Snyder -- New Flag -- Death March from the Siege of Kut, 1916 -- Sometimes, at Seven -- A Medici Servant Recounts Leo X's Coronation -- Cento from the Church of the Nazarene's Advent Marquee -- William Tecumseh Sherman Speaks on the Burning of Old Sheldon Church, South Carolina, 1865 -- How Her Pearls -- II. On Certain Theories of Capitalism; Fever Dream in which Anne Sexton Is My Mother Begging for Her Job at the Sunshine Supermart after Her Third Reprimand for Tardiness -- From Her Deathbed Harriet Bailey Chronicles the Fifth and Final Trek to Her Son Frederick Douglass -- The Rocket -- Witness 483: Phoenix Lights Incident, 1997 -- Dry Lightning -- The Great Disappointment -- Charles Altamont Doyle Writes to His Son Arthur Conan from the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, 1888 -- The Fever Room -- What Creature -- Into the Primitive -- Ananogmius within the Body Cavity of Xiphactinus -- III. The Redskins Logo's Soliloquy -- Still Life with Denver Broncos Duffel Bag, 1989 -- Marlboro Purslane -- Erasure: Tattered Copy of Ezra Jack Keats' Whistle for Willie Discharged by the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs' Preschool Lending Library -- The Clay Is Vile Beneath Our Feet -- Widow's Lament -- At Sixty Weeks -- On Certain Theories of Guitar -- The Throat an Open Grave -- Delirium Tremens: Keith Moon at Laguna Beach, 1978 -- On a Photograph of Jeffers with His Granddaughter Una, Carmel, 1953 -- Joseph's Apocrypha -- IV. Ode to Noah Caterpillar Jackson, 1807-1880 -- Two Mosquitoes -- The Birth of Things to Come -- Recital with Tenebrae -- Seven Post-It Notes for the Philosophy Department's New Work-Study Aide -- Gut Shot, Alifair McCoy Prays to Wisps of Floccus -- Target Practice -- A Surrogate Suicide Note for Carol Frost Written with a Murder of Shaftsbury Crows -- The Wolfman's Confession to the Salisbury Police Department -- Ghazal for Toadspawn -- Plash & Levitation.
2014 winner of the Permafrost Prize series award.
Keywords: Poetry