Calls from the Outside World

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Poetry. "Bob Hershon's unsentimental eye for the touchingly odd, the amusingly odd, and the odd that needs correcting because it represents an important failure on the part of a person or a society is everywhere present in this terrific new book. Hershon is the Master of Brooklyn, Baseball, The Movies, Childhood, Restaurants, European Travel, and a lot besides. These funny, trenchant poems both enrich and ennoble our daily lives" - Charles North.
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Poetry. "Bob Hershon's unsentimental eye for the touchingly odd, the amusingly odd, and the odd that needs correcting because it represents an important failure on the part of a person or a society is everywhere present in this terrific new book. Hershon is the Master of Brooklyn, Baseball, The Movies, Childhood, Restaurants, European Travel, and a lot besides. These funny, trenchant poems both enrich and ennoble our daily lives" - Charles North.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781931236577
  • Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/2006
  • Pages: 77
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Table of Contents

Calls from the outside world 9
Chicken suit 11
Messiah on Varick Street 12
A pressure-sensitive label 13
Sylvie 15
My passage through Grub Street 16
Co-editors 18
The deuce by the coat rack 19
Illusions of paradise 20
Not a chain 21
International incidents 22
The remaining balance 24
Mysteries of country life explained 25
Oh, the Shelburne Hotel, I thought you said Swinburne 26
A short history of World War II 27
Ross Bagdasarian 29
The Marx Brothers leave Paramount and sign with MGM 31
1960, in memoriam, the Times Theater, Stockton Street, now a Chinese supermarket 32
Two new kids on the block and one old one 34
Three photographs taken around the house at the request of Anselm Berrigan and Tom Devaney for a mysterious future project 36
Neighbors 38
The sun never sets on Sunset Park 39
Halloween 40
Record snowfall 41
August 1968 42
Sentimental moment or why did the baguette cross the road? 43
History by holes 44
Too good 45
The big occasions 47
Everybody in New York 48
Mysteries of marriage 49
Olives 50
Lunch with Lizzie and dinner with Donna 51
Another town 53
From the balcony of the Hotel Della Signoria 55
North from Naples 57
Cause and effect 58
On the model of popsicle 59
A woman strangles 60
They turn unto the patriarch and the patriarch is out to lunch 61
Celestial yawning 62
Rapture of the deep 63
Divisible by five 64
Beans 65
Mysteries of dawn and dusk 66
Life as junior high school 67
Grover Cleveland High School, class of '53 68
The three stages of insomnia 74
Kandinsky : paintings 198, 199, 200, 201 75
Locked 77
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