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| Introduction | ||
| St. Agnes' Eve | 1 | |
| Minnie and Mrs. Hoyne | 2 | |
| Andy and Jerry and Joe | 4 | |
| Cultural Notes | 5 | |
| John Standish, Artist | 7 | |
| They Liked It | 8 | |
| Jack Knuckles Falters But Reads Own Statement at His Execution While Wardens Watch | 9 | |
| from Aphrodite Metropolis | 11 | |
| The Drinkers | 12 | |
| Lithographing | 14 | |
| Portrait | 15 | |
| The Cabinet of Simplicity | 16 | |
| Ballad of the Salvation Army | 19 | |
| Green Light | 20 | |
| Breakfast With Hilda | 22 | |
| Saturday Night | 22 | |
| Evening Song | 25 | |
| Invitation | 26 | |
| Angel Arms | 28 | |
| Conclusion | 30 | |
| Winner Take All | 31 | |
| Resurrection | 33 | |
| Obituary | 35 | |
| American Rhapsody (1) | 36 | |
| Dividends | 39 | |
| X Minus X | 40 | |
| 1933 | 41 | |
| Dear Beatrice Fairfax | 44 | |
| American Rhapsody (2) | 45 | |
| As the Fuse Burns Down | 47 | |
| No Credit | 48 | |
| Dirge | 50 | |
| What If Mr. Jesse James Should Some Day Die? | 52 | |
| Escape | 53 | |
| $2.50 | 55 | |
| American Rhapsody (3) | 57 | |
| Lullaby | 58 | |
| 20th Century Blues | 59 | |
| Denouement | 61 | |
| En Route | 68 | |
| Happy New Year | 70 | |
| Literary | 71 | |
| Lunch With the Sole Survivor | 72 | |
| Devil's Dream | 72 | |
| Hold the Wire | 74 | |
| Longshot Blues | 76 | |
| A Pattern | 77 | |
| The Program | 79 | |
| American Rhapsody (5) | 80 | |
| Portrait | 81 | |
| C Stands for Civilization | 82 | |
| Take a Letter | 84 | |
| Radio Blues | 85 | |
| Dance of the Mirrors | 87 | |
| Manhattan | 88 | |
| Scheherazade | 91 | |
| How Do I Feel? | 92 | |
| Agent No. 174 Resigns | 94 | |
| Pact | 97 | |
| The Doctor Will See You Now | 98 | |
| Gentleman Holding Hands With Girl | 99 | |
| Portrait of a Cog | 101 | |
| A La Carte | 102 | |
| American Rhapsody (4) | 103 | |
| Yes, the Agency Can Handle That | 104 | |
| Class Reunion | 105 | |
| Payday in the Morgue | 107 | |
| Love, 20[cents] the First Quarter Mile | 110 | |
| Discussion After the Fifth or Sixth | 112 | |
| Readings, Forecasts, Personal Guidance | 114 | |
| Continuous Performance | 117 | |
| Art Review | 119 | |
| Cracked Record Blues | 120 | |
| Travelogue in a Shooting-Gallery | 121 | |
| Thirteen O'Clock | 122 | |
| Reception Good | 124 | |
| Confession Overheard in a Subway | 125 | |
| King Juke | 128 | |
| Elegy in a Theatrical Warehouse | 130 | |
| Piano Tuner | 131 | |
| Model for a Biography | 132 | |
| End of the Seers' Convention | 133 | |
| The Joys of Being a Businessman | 135 | |
| Public Life | 137 | |
| A Tribute, and a Nightmare | 138 | |
| Afternoon of a Pawnbroker | 139 | |
| Stranger at Coney Island | 143 | |
| 4 A.M. | 145 | |
| Castaway | 147 | |
| The Juke-Box Spoke and the Juke-Box Said | 148 | |
| Newspaperman | 149 | |
| Bryce & Tomlins | 151 | |
| Sherlock Spends a Day in the Country | 152 | |
| Mrs. Fanchier at the Movies | 153 | |
| The People v. the People | 154 | |
| Irene Has a Mind Of Her Own | 156 | |
| Minutes From the Chamber of Commerce | 158 | |
| This Day | 159 | |
| Long Journey | 160 | |
| Family Album (1): The Pioneers | 162 | |
| Family Album (2): Granny | 164 | |
| Family Album (3): The Boat | 165 | |
| Family Album (4): The Investigators | 166 | |
| Biographical Note | 171 | |
| Note on the Texts | 173 | |
| Notes | 175 | |
| Index of Titles and First Lines | 177 |
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Leslie Goss
reviewed Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems on October 08, 2009
Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems
This anthology covers the breadth of Kenneth Fearing's career in poetry. His earlier work relies heavily on pastiche, but Fearing's later work is outstanding and resonant. He's a world weary lyricist; a gray meek guy whose soul screams fire and rage. Fearing was lamenting the problems of technology mechanizing human interactions, and impersonal media blaring out trivia to the soporific masses in the late 30s and 40s. Examine that: the man was tortured by technology in the 1930s & 1940s! Fearing was pissed about where modern life was headed as the century was about to shift into full gear.
The poems have aged well. For all that his work touches upon, Fearing could easily be a downbeat loner ready to kill a boring co-worker pestering him with an unwanted iPhone demo. Aside from the occasionally obscure pop reference, usually posited as a non-sequitur, Fearing's despair is timeless. Dark alleys, five am. Drunk, sad, work starts at 9, or starve to death kind of despair.
My only beef with this collection isn't with Fearing; it's with the editor, an academic named Robert Polito. He brought this work to light, and did not let it languish in some fly-specked library. Polito has done an invaluable service to Americans letting everyone know about the US's noir heritage, digging up THE NOIR POET. His taste is impeccable; I loved the Library of America selections for the two volume crime novel set. That said, Polito does not belong on the "Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems" dust jacket looking "rad" and "urban savage" in a black leather jacket while Fearing despondently moons on a title page. Polito did his duty as an editor, but needs to save his glamour shots for his own books.
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