Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 91, [4] pages : portrait; 23 cm

Summary

1. At birth we are given a role--it is our name. GOOD ACTORS is a side-eyed illumination of the artist as self-help guru, oracle, and sage, but more importantly as mother, lover, and friend. Part psychological experiment, part conceptual art piece, part screenplay, GOOD ACTORS is 100% a joyful celebration of language and life. And because it is Sommer, the book is hilarious, melancholy, and existential.

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. American poetry > 21st century
3. Poetry
4. Poetry as Topic
5. Poésie
6. poetry
7. American poetry

Contents

1. Good Actors -- Thank You -- Denver is Home to the World's First Quiznos -- Great Things from the Department of Transportation -- Historicity -- Sex -- To Drunk To Fuck -- Super Bowl -- All I Have to Do is Act Naturally -- Do You Have an Extra Cigarette? -- Yes -- The Deer -- Bad Sex -- Zygote -- Substances that Prevent Me From Remembering my Dreams -- Nightmare -- To Write -- Marriage Scene -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Etel Adnan's Exhibit -- The First Number Will Be a Blues -- People I've Gone to the Movies With -- The American Night is Young -- Life: A Draft -- Single Mom -- Into-an-Empty-Swimming-Pool-Diving in Love -- Dramatis Personae -- I Miss -- The Briefest Interview in the World -- Oral History.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Cover art "Man Drawing" by Liliana Porter ; cover design by Hollis Duncan ; photo by Joshua Ware