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  • Author:agent Alex Skovron http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/skovron-alex
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Man and the Map
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Five Islands Press , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Iti"Flat on my back I listen to the dark,", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 47)
The Blimpi"Climbing from midnight,", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 48-49)
Studyi"You know, I was almost about to forgo", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 50)
Mr Wilkinsoni"Patrolling the playground was a kind of God.", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 51-54)
Elegyi"Where, then, is the unravelled vortex", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 55-56)
The Violin-Maker, the Forest and the Clocki"Into the thatched night", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 57-64)
I. Beethoveni"They say I was eccentric, or uncouth,", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 67-69)
Vienna (Five Variations), Alex Skovron , sequence poetry (p. 67-76)
II. Lenini"These Viennese are useless at chess,", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 70)
III. Freudi"Some dreams are beyond interpretation", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 71-73)
IV. Hitleri"Schicklgruber Schicklgruber", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 74)
V. Schoenbergi"If times were different our music would be different.", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 75-76)
After the Futurei"After the future, we abandoned", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 77-78)
Note: Dedication: for Manfred Jurgensen
The Guilt Factoryi"From far away it is a constellation", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 79-80)
The Firei"The room, if he could close his eyes,", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 81-83)
Note: Epigraph:
'That love, all love, all kinds, descriptions, and shapes,
Is but a mask to hide the brute face of fact,
And that fact is the immitigable ferocity of self...' -- Robert Penn Warren, Brother to Dragons
Turning the Tablelandi"Pretend I am", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 84-86)
Note: Epigraph: 'At length he by death is backgammoned.' -- Annals Register, 1793
The Centuriesi"It is necessary to remind oneself", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 87)
On the Road to Helli"We must have stopped ten thousand times", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 88-90)
Note: Epigraph: They looked at each other. 'See you when we're dead.' 'Or see you on the road to Hell,' he said.
Wraithi"The mud outside glitters with cartwheel runnels", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 91)
The Man and the Mapi"The dead flags", Alex Skovron , single work poetry (p. 92-94)
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