Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems by Kim Addonizio

Author:Kim Addonizio [Addonizio, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, American
ISBN: 9780393077933
Google: ubc66LYF95kC
Amazon: 0393335259
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-09-08T18:06:04.685360+00:00

Book Burning

On top of all the copies of Lolita tossed into a parking lot bonfire

somewhere in Texas

by Bible lovers—how ironic is that, since bible means book,

not that anyone who takes the Bible literally is likely to

appreciate irony—

along with Humbert Humbert aka Mesmer Mesmer and Dolores

aka Lo aka Lola Haze

cruising through the American landscape in ravishing sentences,

along with Henry Miller and his many lovely whores, not to

mention

all the delicious meals he cadged off his friends while he was

broke in Paris,

along with Allen Ginsberg ascending chanting over

FIRST BAPTIST GOD IS LOVE BINGO SUPPER SUNDAY

in a column of pink smoke to the tinkling of little Tibetan bells,

and with a bunch of other excellent books some group of

spiritually impaired Visigoths

deemed inappropriate and corrupt,

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