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In the Belly

In the Belly

by David Gewanter
In the Belly

In the Belly

by David Gewanter

Overview

"Gewanter's poetry offers a sense of obstacles, and of obstacles not overcome but ridden and thus dealt with, and is nowhere better illustrated than in 'Conduct of Our Loves.' Read this poem in the book store and you will want to buy the book."—Thom Gunn

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226288727
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 03/02/1997
Series: Phoenix Poets
Edition description: 1
Pages: 94
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Gewanter is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Sleep of Reason and In the Belly, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Annals of the Wonder-Cabinet
In the Belly
English I
Yeartime for the Intifada
The Pardon
Goya's The Third of May, 1808
Letter In My Desk
Boy's Poem
The Competition
Shield
A Prayer for Theft
Catalunya: A Letter
Formula
From the Circle of Lovers
The Abortion
Leg-of-Mutton Pond
Three for the Organ-Grinder
"Waste Ground & Weeds"
Conduct of Our Loves
Bill
Early Words
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Tetragrammaton
My Father's Autopsy
Bleish the Barber
Push Play
Leopard Man
Last Garden
Tribute
The Fossil
Notes
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Related Subjects

Poetry
American Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
American poetry->20th century
Poetry
American Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
American poetry->20th century

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