Small World

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

At times angry and despairing, these poems evoke hospital conditions and social attitudes toward the ill, but focus on the intricate reality of living day to day and trying to bring memory to bear on the future. In this collection, "The Patient" suffers a brain hemorrhage, causing the poet to carefully examine the days before and after this heartbreaking event. A multilayered compilation, it builds a rich portrait of love under almost intolerable pressure.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Small World
• An old drawer up beyond the children (p. 3)
• The Mutual Satellite Assurance Company Limited (p. 4)
• Cocktail hour (p. 5)
• Book makers (p. 7)
• Fold-up (p. 10)
• A rising field (p. 12)
• Little toes (p. 13)
• Compartment (p. 14)
• At the Modern (p. 15)
• Mermaid in a wheelchair (p. 17)
• Fifty per cent is by continuous assessment (p. 18)
• Ninety per cent is by continuous assessment (p. 18)
• Missing person (p. 19)
• Namesake (p. 20)
• Namesake (p. 21)
• Faster! (p. 22)
• Jazz syllabus (p. 23)
• High red gates → prawns, pork (p. 24)
• The paper doors (p. 25)
• Initials (p. 26)
• Manmade buoyancy (p. 27)
• If you fall, or touch a line, your turn ends (p. 28)
• Compartment (p. 29)
• House martins (p. 30)
• Small World
• Delicate greenery (p. 33)
• Blue black permanent (p. 35)
• Blue black permanent (p. 35)
• Nimble, oblique (p. 36)
• Initials (p. 38)
• Pinnacle wordfinder (p. 39)
• Prayer (p. 40)
• In Memory
• Breaking point (p. 43)
• Aphasia in last days (p. 44)
• Small World
• Relatives Room (p. 47)
• Under (p. 49)
• The whole ocean (p. 50)
• Cards (p. 52)
• Valentine: Would love to meet (p. 53)
• All the best (p. 54)
• Corinne (p. 55)
• Lift (p. 56)
• As if the equal (p. 58)
• Frank O'Hara was a curator (p. 59)
• From Crete (p. 60)
• Dominion claim (p. 61)
• 'A second's scalding' (p. 62)
• 'In the corner there' (p. 63)
• Stella (p. 64)
• cell (p. 65)
• Storming (p. 66)
• Talks about talks (p. 67)
• If you fall, or touch a line, your turn ends (p. 68)
• That passing place (p. 69)
• Glasgow Coma Scale (p. 70)
• She wakes in war poetry (p. 71)
• Rose (p. 72)
• Drugs or (p. 73)
• Tilt table (p. 74)
• Clip (p. 76)
• Jewellery (p. 77)
• Phantom limb (p. 79)
• Left neglect (p. 80)
• It's work to sit still (p. 81)
• São Paulo is no city for walkers (p. 83)
• Dust in the tread (p. 84)
• Introductions (p. 85)
• Locked (p. 86)
• Two Ians and a witch (p. 87)
• An award-winning documentary (p. 88)
• The Everfield (p. 90)
• The Elderfield (p. 91)
• Gallery (p. 93)
• I am greatly changed (p. 94)
• Release & the goodwill aquifers (p. 96)
• Afterword
• Fliers (p. 101)