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This is cosmopolitan one-man theater at its best. Words do not swallow the reader: they flow to a varied musical rhythm and make sense. Nikolayev's collection models a persuasive modern hero-an uprooted intellectual at home in diverse cultures who stares at the world through a unique pair of eyes.
List of contents
- Eagles
- Secluded
- Thunders
- Pyromania
- A Key in the Puddle
- Locked
- Nostalgia
- You Who
- The Art of Forgetting
- A Plaint on the Parting of Inversion from Poetry
- Were I Not
- Old Hell
- Title Disease
- Still Communicating
- The Green Square
- Tendency toward Vagrancy
- Grizzly
- Green Eye
- Apple Seeds
- Good Enough
- Lunch
- Nightcap
- On Falling Asleep in August Hot Wee Hours
- A Secret Open Secret
- A Fund of Hedge Funds
- Eternal City
- Not Otherwise Thought
- Diotima's Lesson
- Need to Talk
- Hymn
- Moi aussi j'aime les nuages qui passent la-bas
- Odessa Herring 1983
- Seeing
- Stargazing
- Discipline
- A Stately Goodbye
- For Stephen Sturgeon
- "Things happen as if not happening . . ."
- Hold that Thought
- Unhappening
- Morning
- Facts of Life
- "these pages turn cold in the wind . . ."
- "In this vat of wishful hearts . . ."
- Revolution
- Homage to Paradox
- Cicadas
- Book Tongue
- "My name is Wormswurst, I give back to men their Zen . . ."
- Hotel
- Sharks
- Life
- The Next Level
- "I wish to live my life like a house insect . . ."
- "Global bacteria local euphoria . . ."
- Folklore
- Urbane Suburbia
- A Quarry of Words
- 19 March 2004
- Crocodile
- Farewell
- A Midsummer Night's Stroll
- A Ghazal
- Commencement Walk
- I Am not Used to Using a Cell Phone
- Poetry Month Poem
- Rhetoric
- Target Practice
- The Cure
- The Seeded Friend of Humankind Is Cashed
- The Nut Club
- Zeno's Stoop
- Offer
- Ideers
- A Letter to the Antipodes
- Pensees
- Ithinkistillcanhear
- Ideas
- "A taste that loves the classical cliché . . ."
- Benares USA
- In a Hospital
- Nothing Changes
- Philosophy & Rhetoric
- One Sensation, Two Sensation
- I'll Write
- Coastwise Lights
- Suburbi Et Suborbi
- Recollections
- To Assuage
- States of Affairs
- A Silence within a Silence
- Simple Joys of Food & Drink
- Letters from the Past
- Indian Summer
- Modulo Feeling
- Litmus Test
- "God, empowered to the max . . ."
- A Life, in 500 Words or Less
- Earth
About the author
Born in Moscow in 1966 and raised in Russia and Moldova, Philip Nikolayev grew up equally fluent in English and Russian. On relocating to the US in 1990 to attend Harvard he has written primarily in English. His poetry is published internationally. Nikolayev's previous collections include Monkey Time, winner of the 2001 Verse Prize. He lives in Boston and co-edits Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics.
