Charms Against Lightning

Description

A collection of poems by debut poet James Arthur. I -- 5 Charms Against Lightning -- 6 The Kitchen Weeps Onion -- 7 Ghost Life -- 8 Utopia -- 9 Drying Out -- 10 Drinking Song -- 11 Vertigo -- 12 In Praise of Noise -- 13 At Klipsan Beach -- 14 The Death of the Painter -- 15 Vertigo -- II -- 19 Independence -- 20 Omnivore -- 21 Tyrrhenian Sea -- 22 At the Protestant Cemetery -- 23 On Day and Night -- 24 Kiss -- 25 Song of the Doppelganger -- 26 In Defense of the Semicolon -- 27 Avocado -- 28 Fatherhood -- 29 Exoskeleton -- 30 Vertigo -- 31 Against Emptiness -- III -- 35 In Praise of the Indeterminate -- 36 The Disconnected Man -- 37 Bucephalus, Charging -- 38 In a Parallel Universe -- 39 Poem from Behind a Gorilla Mask -- 40 Disintegration -- 41 The Sympathy of Angels -- 42 Sad Robots -- 43 Oysterville -- 44 Reed Ships -- 45 The Names of Flowers -- 46 Aspirations -- 47 Sprezzatura -- 48 Gooseberry -- IV -- 51 The Land of Nod -- 52 Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle -- 53 Swimming Pool -- 54 Daylight Savings -- 55 You Are the Canal Dividing a City -- 56 Epithalamium -- 57 Rapid Transit -- 58 Tropical Bats -- 59 Summer Song.