Begging for it : poems /
"Alex Dimitrov leads us through the streets, bridges, and bedrooms of New York City, sometimes as far away as Buenos Aires and Iceland, and as close as our own darkest corners. A Bulgarian immigrant, Dimitrov writes as both observer of and fervent participant in an "American youth," a...
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Tribeca:
Four Way Books,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Heartland
- The crucifix
- Passage
- Leaving for America, May 1991
- American youth
- The underwear
- Night flights
- St. Sebastian questions a terrorist
- To the thirsty I will give water
- America, you darling
- This is a personal poem
- This is not a personal poem
- James Franco
- Prayer for the New Years
- Prayer in Hell's Kitchen
- The composer's lover
- Bloodletting
- Self-portrait as Brigitte Bardot in Contempt
- In the museum of old lovers
- Lush
- At close rang
- In this economy even businessmen go down
- Suit & tie, 6'1, married, financial district
- Minor miracles
- Begging for it
- All Souls' Day
- Seven chambers of a wolf's heart
- Beginning in Buenos Aires
- A second heart swims up my throat
- Self-portrait as Daisy in The Great Gatsby
- Sensualism
- The burning place
- After love
- A lover's discourse
- His red ribs, glittering
- Uncomplicated happiness
- Grave flowers
- The fates
- Fugue in the wrong key
- Evening
- Blue curtains
- White fire
- Self-portrait without the self
- 21st century lover
- I will be loving
- I'm lonely and I love it
- Sleeping with everyone
- Heroines
- Self-portrait as Brett in The Sun Also Rises
- Radiance
- Red desert
- Nowhere better than this place
- Refusing the ledge
- We are a natural wonder
- The why
- Dear friend: I have nearly died three times since morning
- Darling
- I'm always thinking about you, America.