TY - BOOK AU - Shumate,David TI - The floating bridge: : prose poems SN - 9780822959892 U1 - 811.6 PY - 2008///] CY - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - Prose poems, American N1 - Far Villages; Mannequins; Kafka; The next village; Big brother loses his virginity; Fresh fish; Pulling a rabbit out of a hat; Don Quixote; Metaphors; Translating a poem; The overwhelming sadness of the earth; Plum; Wisdom; THE ORANGE FLAGS OF BABYLON; The orange flags of Babylon; Learning to eat a pomegranate; The yellow bird; Picasso; The headless saints; The amateur Zen master; Trapped inside a Haiku poem; The island of Nirvana; Rain; The dreams of children; Trains; The long road; The bible belt; The Gods; The ladders of purgatory; Drawing Jesus; Jesus's IQ; Seduction; The Jewish Ghetto; Boarding the bus to Gomorrah; Om; Zero; Halo; The house of death; The Bedouins of Paris; Spring in Paris; Lucifer; The kissing institute; Pornography; French foreign legion; Gertrude Stein's gardener; Dying park; The gates of Paris; An American in Paris; Paris, USA; The floating bridge; Making a forest; A visit with Dali; North wind; Children's book illustration, circa 1890; Learning Italian slowly; A poem I wrote thirty years ago; Chinese restaurant; Welcome home, children; The history of the umbrella; While I sleep; The fish ER -