The inner lives of demons, the demonic forces of opera and ballet, a little fairytale can all be found in this poetry.
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ISBN:9780807156933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description:71 pages ; 22cm. print
Publisher:Warrensburg, MO :Pleiades Press,2014.
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Prologue: White night demon - The birth of the everyday demon - needle prick demon - broken jar demon - the demon of the untraceable scents - lost wedding ring demon - the christening - the girl with enamel eyes - before the glass slipper - from the compendium of Old Madge. the black act: James pursues - Siegfried is full of improbable vows - Cicada killer #2: soldier - earth star - tryst - in which Angel goes on a bender - Bonnie Parker, after the second heist - Ginger, at 3 a.m. - Ginger's stylist tells all - nights at the Moulin - spider - mattress fire demon - snapped key demon - the everyday demon experiences burn-out - the demon of unlucky strikes - outside the glass factory, Murano - Cimitero di San Michele, Diaghilev's grave - dancer's poem for Callas - postcards for my mother, Galleria Borghese. The white act: Myrtha's Woods - Wili - the ptarmigan - cicada killer #3: matriarch - after failure - water at the Lunatic Ball - library - bones - lunatic notes, 1838 - the crib, 1864, Utica Asylum - letters to a suicidal man - to a husband and son lost in fog - choked peppermint demon - blue birth demon - the demon of hidden birds - swan aubade. Apotheose: Bayadere - husbandry - shades - cicada killer #1 - the ox and the waterfall - Blind Woman walks barefoot in rain - potato - thanksgiving - Sylphide - burying.
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