A Table of Content

Wisconsin Bookwatch, August, 2004

A Table Of Content

Dorothea Tanning

Graywolf Press

2402 University Avenue, Suite 203, Saint Paul, MN 55114

www.graywolfpress.org

1555974023 $14.00 1-651-641-007

Born in 1910 and currently living in New York City, Dorothea Tanning is one of the oldest and finest of the contemporary American poets writing today. A Table Of Content is the latest collection of her work and will admirably serve to introduce her to a whole new generation of readers. Insomnia, My Cousin: Insomnia, my cousin/ you ride the night machine/witlessly in bedlam,/breathing on my screen/my panting outdoor movie,/my square root,/my flashbulb/socket-pinned and joyless.//Insomnia, my cousin,/you have sired nightly/indecent vertigo./I lie haggard as you drag/your insane engine past/across the floor,/slamming doors/on all my four dimensions,//leaving me high day/to shred the clotted dream./Cousin, I repeatedly/betray you with its debris.

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