send

send

by Domenico Capilongo

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Overview

Domenico Capilongo continues to play with lyricism, form and language in his new poetry collection. send is a collection of poetry that explores our many modes of communication from smoke signals to texting. The work uses lyric meditations, personal narratives and experimental poetry to shed light on the ways in which we try to express ourselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771832014
Publisher: Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/01/2017
Series: Essential Poets series , #244
Pages: 110
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Toronto's Domenico Capilongo has had work published in national and international literary journals. His first two books of poetry, I thought elvis was italian, and hold the note and short fiction collection, Subtitles, have been short-listed for several awards.

Table of Contents

i

Book 5

Pass this note 6

We will meet in the centre of the city 7

City 8

Silent resolutions 9

Online dating 10

Unsolicited 11

Message 12

Crossed 13

After 14

There will come a time 15

Payphone 16

Answer 17

Curses 18

I have to see a man about a horse 19

Man @ urinal with cellphone 20

Sesame street 21

Count 22

Shadows 23

When you get that card in the mail 24

Languages dead 26

The last smoke signal 27

Drum Message 28

Two cans and string 29

Middle age morse code 30

Stock market floor language 31

Whistled languages 32

Death 34

Marconi talks to himself as a child 35

Meucci's notes on the electromagnetic voice transmission 36

Alexander graham bell can't sleep 37

ii

Seven truths about body language according to forbes 43

Like 44

I'occitane en provence immortelle divine cream 45

After rob ford 46

World war one 47

Wedding letter 48

The disease of cool 49

Twenty six of the most curious webster dictionary words 50

GPS recalculating … 52

Dord 53

Four important rules 54

Text from a sweet prince 55

How to yodel 56

Parents dictate text message to youngest daughter 57

Email dating spam 58

(A message for my computer) 59

New phone 60

April fools 61

Things I've learned from eunoia 62

Audiobook on random 63

57 ways to sign off an email according to forbes 64

My curse tablet 65

La di da 66

Christopher marlowe pocket calls william Shakespeare 67

Guard against vulgar language 68

Yolo 70

iii

Love long distance 75

Send 76

Phone call 77

On the radio on my way to work 78

Popcorn 79

Kiss me like houdini's wife 80

Crickets 81

Touchscreen skin 82

Telesexagram 83

Sorry 84

Late for dinner 85

Twitter love 86

After kids 87

First reading 88

Walkie talkie 89

Walking away 90

Swim class 91

Learns to skate 92

Clouds 93

Roman candles 94

Italian melting tongues become twisters 95

Mafia yoga 96

Tufino cemetery 97

Calling italy in the eighties 98

Sharing a room with nonna 99

Carretto siciliano 100

Piccione 1945 101

Fragments from nonno's POW letter 102

Talking with my hands 104

Acknowledgements 105

About the Author 107

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