David Starkey`s A Few Things You Should Know About the Weasel is a far-ranging and fearless collection, of great humour and intelligence and sympathy. Ranging through philosophy and art and history -- both global and domestic -- these poems skillfully chronicle the darkness that is our current age and condition, and the pinpricks of light thta may show us the way out.
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781897231890 9781926845142
- LCCN
- PS3569.T335815
- LCCN Item number
- F48 2010eb
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- 1 electronic text (67 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00224942 (OCoLC)659392007 (CaOOCEL)434694
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Table of Contents
- A F E W T H I N G S Y O U S H O U L D K N O W A B O U T T H E W E A S E L 1
- A F E W T H I N G S Y O U S H O U L D K N O W A B O U T T H E W E A S E L 3
- For Sandy 7
- Auden 7
- I. Will 9
- Q A Will 12 9
- A Few Things You Should Know about the Weasel 13 9
- Jamestown 14 9
- Waiting for a Train 1929 16 9
- Snapshot Fort Worth Texas 17 9
- My Parents Bedroom 18 9
- Spring Flowers 19 9
- Yelling 20 9
- A Very Rich Old Woman 22 9
- Shelley in Santa Barbara 24 9
- Promises Promises 25 9
- II. Form 9
- Q A Form 28 9
- The Women of Lucas Cranach the Elder 29 9
- Cuckoos 31 9
- Hitlers Art 32 9
- A Brief History of Twentieth-Century Architecture 33 9
- Notes for a Novel to Be Set in Myrtle Beach 34 9
- The Detective Novelist 35 9
- The Venus of Willendorf Ottumwa Iowa 39 9
- Higher Education 40 9
- III. War 10
- Q A War 42 10
- My Life as a Shang Shih 43 10
- Nineveh 45 10
- The House of Fame 46 10
- David 47 10
- Birds of Prey 1944 48 10
- Constantina 1968 49 10
- Hanging Out With Bosnians 50 10
- Ax 51 10
- The Murder Suspect Moments Before He Is Confronted by Police 52 10
- Scientists Report 53 10
- Assignments 54 10
- A Poem about the War 55 10
- IV. Eternity 10
- Q A Eternity 58 10
- The Place of Angels 59 10
- St. Francis Disrobes 60 10
- The More Angels Shall I Paint 61 10
- Annunciation 62 10
- Triolet The Zaca Fire 63 10
- The Death of Glenn Miller 64 10
- Surfs Up 66 10
- Another Word for Snow 67 10
- I. Will 11
- Ding an Sich 12
- Youll wreck your womb you keep dancing like that 17
- Everybody smile 17
- North and South Dune One Six Everlasting Love Playboy 18
- Watch Your Weight 20
- What 24
- Dream to be a hero in her bed 25
- Enlarge youre banana length Dont loose your passion to bad potence Get ready to the wildest nights 25
- II. Form 27
- Ac sic magis per multas tribulationes intrare celum quam per securitatem pacis confidant. 30
- McTeague 34
- Before you know it youll be a Journeyman then a Master. 40
- Get out and see the world Them chances you lose they dont come back again. 40
- Go to college. Just dont let it interfere with your education. 40
- III. War 41
- The City of God 42
- Encyclopédie Paix 42
- This pose savoir faire 47
- À propos de bottes 49
- Become the girl he left behind. 54
- Become the guy he left behind. 54
- Become the hardened enemy. 54
- Become the God no one can see. 54
- Take flight from battlefields ascend. 54
- As though the war would never end. 54
- IV. Eternity 57
- Okay 62
- Yes 62
