No Boundaries

Name: No Boundaries
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ISBN: 9781932195019

ISBN-10: 1932195017

ISBN-13: 9781932195019

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ray Gonzales

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"As more poets write prose poems, one of the most common reasons they give for turning to them is that their fluent composition offers a 'freedom of expression' lined poetry often restricts. To many, this sounds like a contradiction stemming from the eternal belief that any kind of good poetry has no boundaries. Yet those that write prose poems insist the act of placing their poems into sentences and paragraphs gives them a fresh approach to content and form."-From the introduction by Ray Gonzalez. An innovative and refreshing concept in poetry anthologies, No Boundaries is the first collection of contemporary prose poetry to present substantial selections from the works of well-known…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Introduction	p. xiii
Red Blossoms	p. 4
The Artichoke	p. 5
The Ultimate Orgasm	p. 6
The Obsession	p. 7
The Life of Borges	p. 8
An Alternative to Sex	p. 9
The Right Time	p. 10
The Message	p. 11
Like an Angel	p. 12
Amnesia	p. 13
Warning to the Reader	p. 15
An Oyster Shell	p. 16
The Crow's Head	p. 17
A Hollow Tree	p. 18
The Black Crab-Demon	p. 19
An Octopus	p. 20
Two Sounds When We Sit By the Ocean	p. 21
Calm Day at Drake's Bay	p. 22
A Piece of Lichen	p. 23
The Orchard Keeper	p. 24
History of Clouds	p. 26
Parable of the Astral Wheel	p. 27
Parable of the Traveler From Qatar	p. 28
Hawaiian Shirt	p. 29
Unforgiven	p. 30
Crimes Against the Future	p. 31
To Propagate a Change in Configuration or Bill Gates & The Blue Cow	p. 32
Involving the Use of the Word America	p. 33
Three Presidents	p. 34
Parable of the White House Replica	p. 35
"In this wind"	p. 37
"No one promised..."	p. 38
"The man has lost his way..."	p. 39
"A small stranger..."	p. 40
"El Paso"	p. 41
"At junctures we renamed..."	p. 42
"Would I dive again..."	p. 43
"Pieces that jammed..."	p. 44
"The boy had told a rhyme..."	p. 45
"A truck pulled up..."	p. 46
An American	p. 48
Blues	p. 49
The Sorry Part	p. 51
The Sixties: Two Scenes	p. 53
In History	p. 54
The Wheel of Appetite	p. 55
The Hawk. The Road. The Sunlight After Clouds	p. 57
Brutal Squares	p. 59
Memory	p. 60
The Bait	p. 62
Hereditary Guess	p. 65
Votive	p. 66
Farm Mutilations	p. 67
The Lost Finger	p. 68
First Death in Oklahoma	p. 69
Wellspring	p. 70
The Life of the Body	p. 71
Level and Rise	p. 73
The Seven Anxieties of Sleep	p. 74
The Harpist, Between the Beginning and End	p. 75
A Man Who Makes Tears	p. 77
The Dark Side of the Moon	p. 78
The Lover	p. 79
Conjugal	p. 80
The Glandular Condition	p. 81
The Marionettes of Distant Masters	p. 82
The Wheel	p. 83
The Family Monkey	p. 84
Twins	p. 85
Round	p. 86
Difficulty at the Beginning	p. 88
Saints	p. 89
Bzzzzzzz	p. 90
The Cure	p. 91
A Lecture on Jealousy	p. 92
The Holy Ghost	p. 93
War Criminal	p. 94
The Unforeseen	p. 95
Bitter Angel	p. 96
Slow Boat	p. 97
A Painting Is Never in Love	p. 99
Joan Miro Threw a Stone at God	p. 100
He Calls His Dog Rimbaud	p. 101
Fucking Aztecs, Palomas, Mexico	p. 102
The Black Torso of the Pharaoh	p. 103
Understanding	p. 104
As If Talking	p. 105
The Bat	p. 106
The Blessing	p. 107
Traditional	p. 108
Reader of This Page	p. 110
Memorial Day	p. 111
Buho, Buho	p. 112
New Year's Day	p. 113
The Exegesis	p. 114
After Midnight at the Salvage Yard	p. 115
After Chaos Theory	p. 116
First Apartment	p. 117
Self-Portrait	p. 118
River Spirits	p. 119
Giraffe on Fire	p. 121
At the Exodus Gym/ Valencia Street	p. 122
"Who are you?"	p. 123
"Hold up the right corner..."	p. 124
La Llorona Power-Woman Confidential	p. 125
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Notebook	p. 128
"The little boy breathes..."	p. 129
Exiles	p. 130
"The gold triangle..."	p. 131
Taking a Bath in Aztlan	p. 132
The Name	p. 134
Laundromat	p. 135
Somersault	p. 136
The Bear's Money	p. 137
Insects	p. 138
War Surplus	p. 139
The Ukrainian Easter Egg	p. 140
Violence on Television	p. 141
Stone Arch, National Rock Formation	p. 142
The Book	p. 143
Enigma of the Stigma, or Vice Versa	p. 145
The Doll	p. 146
Darwin	p. 147
The New Country	p. 148
Guy Talk	p. 149
Provincetown	p. 150
Neanderthal	p. 151
Home	p. 152
Nettles	p. 153
Return	p. 154
The Sentence	p. 156
A Proclitic Stitch in the Vertical Pull of Roberto Juarroz	p. 158
To Live in Pronouns: The Birth of Pedro Salinas	p. 160
The Death of Attila Jozsef	p. 161
Lemon Seeds of Yannis Ritsos	p. 162
Lucien Blaga Was Not a Fish	p. 164
Blas de Otero and the Pantry of Blood	p. 165
Belgisch Congo, Congo Belge	p. 166
Cavafy's Craving	p. 168
Brahms and the Taxidermies of Sleep	p. 169
Angel Eating Snow	p. 171
Watching Her Soul from Below	p. 173
Narcissus's Suitcase	p. 174
Black Pearl	p. 175
Jar of Bees	p. 176
Giving Away Bones	p. 177
Human with Little Sun in Her Hands	p. 178
Anatomy Woman Escapes	p. 179
The Chalk Bride	p. 180
All of Its Words, Both Winged and Quilled	p. 181
The Lake Shore Limited	p. 183
Come Back Elvis, Come Back to Holyoke	p. 184
The Neighborhood Man	p. 185
Bump	p. 186
On Weeping Icons	p. 187
Love Poem	p. 188
The Year of the Man	p. 189
Meditation on a Bird Sitting on a Man's Head	p. 190
When the Babies Are Missing Again	p. 191
The Second Song of Insomnia	p. 192
The Words	p. 194
The 8th, 9th, and 10th Wonders of the World	p. 195
My Father's Hobby	p. 197
The Girl Who Became My Grandmother	p. 198
Smoking Cigars	p. 199
Moon & Flower	p. 200
Angel Incident	p. 202
Goodbye to the Twentieth Century	p. 203
The Face	p. 204
The People We Never Heard Of	p. 205
The Prose Poem	p. 207
The Gulf	p. 209
Mountainair, New Mexico	p. 210
Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory	p. 211
A Dove	p. 212
El Balserito	p. 213
Sylvia Plath	p. 214
Manitoba	p. 215
Plums	p. 216
The Wreck	p. 218
Souvenir From Anywhere	p. 220
Once Ever After	p. 221
The Lunar Lutheran	p. 222
Free Radicals	p. 223
Dim Lady	p. 224
Naked Statues	p. 225
The Anthropic Principle	p. 226
Denigration	p. 227
Coals to Newcastle, Panama Hats from Ecuador	p. 228
Black Nikes	p. 229
I Was Thinking of Poems	p. 231
The Mind of Squash	p. 232
Living Alone Inside One's Own Body	p. 233
Bright Needle Poked Through Dark Cloth	p. 234
Paris	p. 235
Mint Snowball II	p. 236
His Life	p. 237
Rain Falling into the River That Moment as They Merge	p. 238
Working for Tom	p. 239
Island	p. 240
"I was stolen by the gypsies"	p. 242
Terra Incognita	p. 243
Old Postcard of 42nd Street at Night	p. 244
"Are Russian cannibals worse than the English?"	p. 245
"Time--the lizard in the sunlight."	p. 246
"My guardian angel is afraid of the dark."	p. 247
The Magic Study of Happiness	p. 248
"Lover of endless disappointments..."	p. 249
The Old Man Told Me	p. 250
Our Angelic Ancestor	p. 251
"And when the nights"	p. 253
"I never wish..."	p. 254
"I watching for it..."	p. 255
"If it be event"	p. 256
"There comes a time..."	p. 257
"Although the paths lead..."	p. 258
"What we know..."	p. 259
"Shrewd star"	p. 260
"I have a friend."	p. 261
"I won't go in today."	p. 262
Wednesday Morning Pray Time	p. 264
Dis/coeurs on the Method	p. 265
Housewife's Lament	p. 266
A Very Big Wind	p. 267
Adam Au Verso	p. 268
Representation	p. 269
Gustatory/ Hortatory	p. 270
Sun Dial	p. 271
Self Extension	p. 272
Accord	p. 273
"Crushed by love..."	p. 275
"My mother..."	p. 276
"Kitty smiled"	p. 277
"When the boy died"	p. 278
"Fishing the Powder River..."	p. 279
"Midnight, Christmas"	p. 280
"My son was possessed..."	p. 281
"When I was a young man..."	p. 282
"I was home..."	p. 283
"I am not an incidental thought..."	p. 284
Acknowledgments	p. 286
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