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Steve Kistulentz's second book of poems, Little Black Daydream, is a chronicle of post-capitalist America. With a precise ear for the American patois, it addresses the uncertainty of the future at the exact moment when those questions are at the forefront of our culture. The book teems with the dazzling detritus of desire, capitalism, and apocalypse-and the poems demonstrate an astonishing adeptness at pushing language to portray this strange moment in our histories, both the personal and the fantastical.--Carmen Gimenez Smith, author of The City She Was and Odalisque in Pieces

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	01 octobre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781937378370
Langue	English

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LITTLE BLACK DAYDREAM
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
Mary Biddinger, Editor
Steve Kistulentz, Little Black Daydream
Jason Bredle, Carnival
Emily Rosko, Prop Rockery
Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party
Matthew Guenette, American Busboy
Joshua Harmon, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
David Dodd Lee, Orphan, Indiana
Sarah Perrier, Nothing Fatal
Oliver de la Paz, Requiem for the Orchard
Rachel Dilworth, The Wild Rose Asylum
John Minczeski, A Letter to Serafin
John Gallaher, Map of the Folded World
Heather Derr-Smith, The Bride Minaret
William Greenway, Everywhere at Once
Brian Brodeur, Other Latitudes
Jeff Gundy, Spoken among the Trees
Alison Pelegrin , Big Muddy River of Stars
Roger Mitchell, Half/Mask
Ashley Capps, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, The Book of Accident
Clare Rossini, Lingo
Vern Rutsala, How We Spent Our Time
Kurt Brown, Meg Kearney, Donna Reis, Estha Weiner, eds.,
Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews
Sharmila Voorakkara, Fire Wheel
Dennis Hinrichsen, Cage of Water
Lynn Powell, The Zones of Paradise
Titles published since 2003.
For a complete listing of titles published in the series, go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry
LITTLE BLACK DAYDREAM
Steve Kistulentz
Copyright © 2013 by Steve Kistulentz
All rights reserved • First Edition 2013 • Manufactured in the United States of America.
All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the Publisher, the University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325–1703.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Kistulentz, Steve.
Little black daydream / Steve Kistulentz. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Akron series in poetry)
Poems.
ISBN 978-1-937378-20-2 (cloth : alk. paper) —
ISBN 978-1-937378-19-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS 3611.1875 L 58 2013
811′.6— DC 23
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z 39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). ∞
Cover design: Zac Bettendorf
Little Black Daydream was designed and typeset in Centaur with Univers display by Amy Freels and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by BookMasters of Ashland, Ohio.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the editors and staff at the following journals where the original versions of these poems appeared:
“Time Grants the Two of Us Some Perspective” and “This Therapy Has Had Amazing Results” appeared in The Antioch Review .
“The Bungalow Club” appeared in Barn Owl Review 4 .
“Megalography” appeared in Barn Owl Review 5 .
“First Antiphon of Callow Youth” appeared in Cincinnati Review .
“Poem That Cries at the National Anthem” appeared in 580 Split .
“Limits” appeared in Floyd County Moonshine .
“Using” appeared in The Louisville Review .
“Last of the Soviets” and “Nostalgic Love Poetry: A Poetics in Ten Parts” appeared in The Nepotist .
“Life During Wartime” appeared in Puerto del Sol .
“Procedure” and “Why I Love What Breaks Down” appeared in Quarterly West .
“Death Is a Hysterical Dynasty” appeared in The Rumpus .
“Maximalism: The Inaugural Address” appeared in Shadowbox .
“Maximalism: A Romance” appeared in The Southern Review .
“This Therapy Has Had Amazing Results”takes its title from the poem “At the Treatment Center” by Jerome Sala. The phrase “Bureau of Metropolitan Longing” in the poem “Maximalism: A Romance” is taken from a letter by Harold Brodkey. The poems that contain the word “Maximalism” in their titles do so as a tribute to late nineteenth-century political thought, which posited that the collapse of capitalism was inevitable. Advocates suggested a “maximum programme” of social-democratic policies that would replace fallen capitalism. Among the tenets of such a program are freedom, justice, and social solidarity. “Death Is a Hysterical Dynasty” is dedicated to John Hansen and Rocky LaLiberte. “Megalography” takes some of its language from a Time magazine column on the explosion and sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk , which occurred in August 2000.
I’m also thankful to the following friends for their support, guidance, and editorial assistance: Erika Meitner, Carmen Giménez-Smith, Al Maginnes, Natasha Sajé, Brian Spears.
Contents
The Symbolic Landscape of Your Childhood
Death Is a Hysterical Dynasty
Using
Maximalism: A Romance
Postcard from a Place I Have Never Been
Procedure
First Antiphon of Callow Youth
The Bungalow Club
A Battery-Powered Picaresque
Maximalism: Overture
Soldiers at Parade Rest
Life During Wartime
Megalography
Maximalism: Suite Number One
Maximalism: Suite Number Two
Poem That Admits Its Own Defeat
A Military History of Seduction
Maximalism: The Inaugural Address
Last of the Soviets
Poem That Cries at the National Anthem
Nostalgic Love Poetry: A Poetics in Ten Parts
A Psalm for Billy Sathmary, Loneliest Child in the Seventh Grade
Limits
This Therapy Has Had Amazing Results
Why I Love What Breaks Down
Poem That Wishes It Could Touch Your Face
Time Grants the Two of Us Some Perspective
Portrait of You at the Victory Banquet
The Symbolic Landscape of Your Childhood
… burned in the riots of ’68.
A refrigerator overflowing
with the props of toy kitchens:
cornucopia of margarine,
luncheon meats,
cardboard carton of five plastic eggs.
A gallon of milk carved from birch,
painted in lead paint.
Simulacra of the land of plenty.
Talking bears. A menagerie of animals,
each with invented name and fully imagined backstory.
You fell asleep to the susurrus of what you imagined to be owls.
You used permanent marker
to draw a line on the back
of your legs,
seamed stockings,
something you’d seen in the Midnight Mystery Movie
with either Veronica Lake
or Lana Turner.
You were in the fifth grade.
Every summer, I passed through
your symbolic landscape,
the pick-your-own apple plantations
and woodland grottos of central Michigan,
your house so close to the highway.
Once, in the front yard, I saw a girl playing
with the corpse of a miniature dog,
making a pageant out of her vague pantomime
of resuscitation. As I drove past, she spoke,
words inaudible over the hum of tire noise
and the whip of summer wind. I imagined
this litany pouring from her lips:
Sometimes our best efforts fall slightly short .
The symbolic landscape of your childhood
is one of the few man-made objects
which can be seen from outer space,
and your town was never a town at all,
but a neighborhood, solidly working class,
Polish or Ukrainian or black Irish.
People who used to live here
drive through at irregular intervals,
shake their heads,
speak in codified slurs
like tax base and property value .
The cars parked at curbside
are no longer cars,
but burned-out carcasses.
See also Oldsmobiles , bison, American ,
and migratory herds .
The first boy you ever kissed
lived in the house
I am standing in front of now.
You do not remember his name
or the cause of death.
You remember