Rhinoceros

by Kevin Ducey

Overview

Kevin Ducey’s Rhinoceros was selected from over 1,000 manuscripts by Yusef Komunyakaa for the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. With lyrical turns and metaphorical sways, Rhinoceros embodies mythologies that are brought down to earth and riffs on history, desire, death, sex and food. We have lunch with Hawking and Disney before stopping in to see how Robert Browning’s recording session with Thomas Edison is getting on. (They hate each other.) Komunyakaa writes in his introduction: “Rhinoceros has a playfulness that pulses alongside a seriousness, and this rippling effect resonates beneath the skin. . . . A keen imagination drives these impressive poems.”

Kevin Ducey teaches creative writing at the University of Notre Dame and lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971898158
Publisher:	Copper Canyon Press
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Pages:	97
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kevin Ducey, winner of the 2004 Honickman First Book Prize, teaches creative writing at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been published in River City, Malahat, Elixir, and Crab Orchard Review. Rhinoceros is his first book.

Table of Contents

I
	Dien Bien Phu	3
	Hero Tales	7
	Over and After	10
II
	Body Stalking	15
	Tottering Rats	18
III
	Rhinoceros Quick Tongue Absence	29
	Top of the World	33
IV
	Homo Habilis	39
	Far off in a field once	41
	Edison & Browning	42
	Hawking and Disney take lunch	43
	Heretic	45
	Leviathan singing	46
	The Lover Speaks of Natural History	47
	Neo dolls	48
	Pearls	49
	Natural History Museums	51
	Viewers like me	53
	Video Chorus	55
	No Distance Makes You Difficult	57
	Horse	58
V
	Spirit Guide	63
	Convict Lake	66
	The Death of Lorca	69
	Choral	71
	The Bridge	72
	Swimming Pool Exorcism	75
	Hummer Apocalypse	77
	April	78
	Eurydice's Song	79
	You have to have a good memory to be bitter	81
	Extra	82
	Willy McGee	83
	Lamentations	85
VI
	Moth light nostalghia	89
	Wheels	92
	Wim Wenders vs. the Wolfman	95