Ooga-Booga

‘The poems in OOGA-BOOGA are the richest yet and read like no one else’s: they’re surreal, utterly unpretentious, and suffused with the peculiar American loneliness of Raymond Chandler. While I can think of a more likable book of poems, I can scarcely imagine a better one.’ Alex Halberstadt, New York magazine [From the inside cover] Kill Poem 3 From Nijinsky’s Diary 7 Violin 8 Nectar 10 On Being Debonair 12 Homage to Pessoa 14 For Holly Andersen 15 Fog 16 A Red Flower 18 Dick and Fred 19 New Year’s Day, 2004 22 The Italian Girl 23 The Big Golconda Diamond 24 What Are Movies For? 25 The Owl You Heard 27 E-mail from an Owl 28 White Butterflies 29 The Castle in the Mountains 31 A Fresh Stick of Chewing Gum 33 Dante’s Beatrice 35 Bologna 37 Racer 41 At a Factory in Italy 44 France for Boys 45 Grandson Born Dead 47 Death 49 East Hampton Airport 50 A White Tiger 52 Cloclo 54 Laudatio 56 To Die For 58 Barbados 60 Climbing Everest 65 Organized Religion 67 Mother Nature 69 Broadway Melody 74 Love Song 75 Breast Cancer wives 78 Rilke 79 Casanova Getting Older 82 Il Duce 84 I Am Siam 85 The Big Jet 86 The Black-Eyed Virgins 87 Eurostar 88 Song: “The Swollen River Overthrows Its Banks” 89 Drinking in the Daytime 90 The Bush Administration 92 The Death of the Shah 96