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  Book cover, 23K; portrait of Frank Lima by Elaine de Kooning; cover design by Tom Powers.

Inventory
by Frank Lima

Table of Contents and Excerpts

Editor's Introduction
 
 

I. New Poem
Scattered Vignettes

II. From Inventory
In Memory of Eugene Perez
(Drowned May 25, 1962)
The Memory of Benny (Kid) Paret

III. From Underground with the Oriole
Inventory-To 100th Street
Mulatta
Hotel Park (East 110th St.)
Mom I'm All Screwed Up
Primavera
Abuela's Wake
Pudgy
Gorilla
Empty Cage
Poem
Poem
Tuesday
Shoe
Beach
Haiku
The Woman
The Welder
Spanish Poetry
Sky-
Ode to Love
Ode to Love-Part 2
Canto
Sara
River/Sara

IV. From Angel
159 John Street
Natasha
The Hunter
Hunter Mountain
Ophelia/October 1971
Lobster
The Children of G- 2
The Underworld
Azaleas
Tulips
Geranium
Violets
From "Dracula to the Angels"
El Bronx
Scenario
Chin Chow
Cuauhtemoc
Chile
Patchouli
Yellowstone
Postcard
Plena
1/ 2 Sonnet


V. From Year's End
Year's End
Pisces
Sermo I
The History of Night
Notes to a Room
Winter Pond
The Hand
My Heart
Sleep
Dissertation
On Poetry
Caduceus
New York
Sunfish
Poem from Amor
Voyagers
The Future
To Pedro Flores Diaz
Lola
Machu Picchu
Un Poco Loco
Maiz

VI. From Tulum
A Logro Decirte
El Lobo
Tulum

VII. From Orfeo
La Onda
This Is a Poem About My Life
Te Amo
Hands
I'm Tired
Things Could Be Worse
March 1994
Popul Vuh
The Sparrow
Easter
Palms Sunday
The Orphan
Tattoo
Puta Vida
The Cedar
My Son
Orfeo
The Particle Poet
Sonata with Some Water
Father's Day
Ode to Julia Child
1994 Puerto Rican Day Parade
Gillette Twin Blades
Culo Prieto
Yom Kippur
Mélange d'Epices
Joe Ceravolo
Mars
Judas Iscariot
Heteronym
Recuerdos
Rem Sleep
Blood
Homenaje
Whispers
Oklahoma America
Hija
Highway
Bread and Water
"The Blood of the Chieftains
Ran Like Water"

The Angels
It's Over
The Mashgiach
Love
Spot
Helen Valentine
Reliquiae


 


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