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The education of desire /

The Education of Desire is quite simply William Dickey's finest book. Completed shortly before his death from AIDS-related illness in 1994, the book is a courageous confrontation with death and the particular questions it raises at the end of the 20th century-how we define humanity and our own...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickey, William (Author)
Other Authors: Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009 (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover : University Press of New England, [1996]
Series:Wesleyan poetry.
Subjects:
Desire > Poetry.
English poetry
United States
Poetry
poetry.
Poetry.
Poésie.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / W.D. Snodgrass
  • The Metamorphoses (starting p. 1)
  • 1 Tribe from the Interior (starting p. 3)
  • 2 Danae (starting p. 4)
  • 3 The Idea of the Frontier (starting p. 5)
  • 4 What Took Place in the Wood (starting p. 6)
  • 5 Amazonas (starting p. 7)
  • 6 "Had I Been the Virgin Mary I Would Have Said No" (starting p. 8)
  • 7 Moons (starting p. 9)
  • 8 The Quest for the Holy Grail (starting p. 10)
  • 9 The Egoist (starting p. 11)
  • 10 Life Study (starting p. 12)
  • 11 David Dances Before Saul (starting p. 13)
  • 12 The Election of the Empress of San Francisco (starting p. 14)
  • 13 The Weather of This World (starting p. 15)
  • 14 Argument (starting p. 16)
  • 15 And I Tiresias Have Experienced All (starting p. 17)
  • 16 The Birthmark of the World on the World's Forehead (starting p. 18)
  • 17 In the Guano Islands (starting p. 19)
  • 18 Monarch Butterflies (starting p. 20)
  • The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (starting p. 21)
  • The Arrival of the Titanic (starting p. 27)
  • Plum (starting p. 28)
  • The Frog Footman and the Fish Footman (starting p. 29)
  • Chants (starting p. 30)
  • Bungee Jumping (starting p. 33)
  • The Troll King (starting p. 35)
  • Hootali Ajignat (starting p. 39)
  • Large and Begrudging (starting p. 40)
  • The Bone Pit (starting p. 41)
  • Post-Modernism (starting p. 45)
  • Spam (starting p. 46)
  • Eleanor and Aquitaine, Marie of Champagne, Courtly Love and the Troubadours (starting p. 48)
  • My Sweet Undertaker: A Blues (starting p. 53)
  • The Death of John Berryman (starting p. 54)
  • Roses (starting p. 55)
  • Evening (starting p. 57)
  • The Education of Desire (starting p. 59)
  • 1 "The archipelago at first light..." (starting p. 59)
  • 2 Aubade (starting p. 59)
  • 3 Margins (starting p. 60)
  • 4 The River Crossing (starting p. 61)
  • 5 "Immense I under..." (starting p. 61)
  • 6 Woodland (starting p. 62)
  • 7 "Corms, tubers, dry..." (starting p. 63)
  • 8 "I was among the company that lost its way..." (starting p. 63)
  • 9 "Arguing, in a cell of the old library..." (starting p. 64)
  • 10 Earthquake, Volcano (starting p. 65)
  • 11 Promenade des Anglais (starting p. 66)
  • 12 "On the white road..." (starting p. 67)
  • Acknowledgments (starting p. 69)