Mystery, so long / Stephen Dobyns.
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- ISBN: 0143034626 :
- Physical Description: x, 95 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
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Table of Contents
Mystery, So Long
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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The Exigencies of Art | p. 1 | |
An Artist Like Any Other | p. 3 | |
Unexpected Holiday | p. 5 | |
Yellow Beak | p. 7 | |
Do They Have a Reason? | p. 8 | |
Living in a Nice Place | p. 9 | |
Other | p. 10 | |
The Happily Ever After | p. 12 | |
Toward Some Bright Moment | p. 13 | |
Dead Rope | p. 15 | |
Penny for Your Thoughts | p. 16 | |
Alligator Dark | p. 17 | |
Learning to Cope | p. 18 | |
Payback | p. 20 | |
The Balance | p. 22 | |
Family Values | p. 24 | |
Hide and Seek | p. 26 | |
Survivor | p. 28 | |
Reparations | p. 29 | |
Between | p. 30 | |
Face-to-Face | p. 31 | |
At Home With Angels | p. 32 | |
The Personal Lyric Vs. The Public Good | p. 33 | |
Commotion | p. 35 | |
Scofflaw | p. 36 | |
Hack Work | p. 38 | |
Dance, Dance | p. 39 | |
Shards of Broken Glass Rejoined | p. 40 | |
Saying No | p. 42 | |
No Moment Past This One | p. 43 | |
Odds and Ends | p. 44 | |
The Birth of Angels | p. 46 | |
Jonah's Flight to Tarshish | p. 47 | |
Functional Forgetting | p. 48 | |
The Appreciation of Beauty | p. 49 | |
Endnotes from the Ancient World | p. 50 | |
The Pig's Complaint to His Queen | p. 51 | |
Chuckleheads | p. 53 | |
Heaven's Proletariat | p. 54 | |
Angel With Book | p. 56 | |
The Requisite Grin | p. 58 | |
Old Farts' Ball | p. 59 | |
The Mercy of Lazarus | p. 60 | |
Driving Past Toward the Bridge | p. 61 | |
The Sideboard's Mahogany Surface | p. 62 | |
The Sacrifice | p. 64 | |
Too Much Skepticism is Like a Punch to the Head | p. 66 | |
For Those Whose Mouths are Packed with Suckling Pig | p. 68 | |
Punishments | p. 69 | |
The Last Take-Out Supper | p. 70 | |
A Morning Pre-Beef | p. 71 | |
Cold Nights | p. 72 | |
Country Club | p. 73 | |
Poem Ending with a Line by Su Tung-Po | p. 74 | |
What had Seemed Permanent | p. 75 | |
Thomas the Doubter's Irrefutable Chink | p. 76 | |
What He Had Been Promised | p. 77 | |
Aidoneus-Hades-Unseen One | p. 78 | |
The Cat with Its Toys | p. 79 | |
Pluto | p. 80 | |
Small | p. 81 | |
Three Christs of Ypsilanti | p. 83 | |
Mystery, So Long | p. 85 | |
Field Notes on Divine Evolution | p. 87 | |
The Cunning One | p. 89 | |
Artist | p. 90 | |
Discord | p. 91 | |
Icarus's Flight | p. 92 | |
Blemished and Unblemished | p. 93 | |
Last Wisdom | p. 95 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 97 |