Devils & Islands. Turner Cassity

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      Devils & Islands

      Devils & Islands

      poems

      TURNER CASSITY

      Swallow Press / Ohio University Press

      Athens

      Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

       www.ohio.edu/oupress

      © 2007 by Turner Cassity

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved

      Swallow Press / Ohio University Press books

      are printed on acid-free paper ™

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      The poems listed appeared first in the following periodicals:

      “Before Clocks Were Digital”: Washington Square “Fashions of 1903”: Southwest Review “Crystal But Not Crystal Ball” and “Afterward”: The New Criterion “The Passion of 1934”: Atlanta Review

      I express my appreciation to Mike Haecker for trying to improve my

      computer literacy in the preparation of this volume.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Cassity, Turner.

      Devils and islands : poems / Turner Cassity.

      p. cm.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1102-0 (acid-free paper)

      ISBN-10: 0-8040-1102-8 (acid-free paper)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1103-7 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

      ISBN-10: 0-8040-1103-6 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

      I. Title.

      PS3553.A8D48 2007

      811'.54—dc22

      2007000333

      “I wonder who began this treating of

      people as fellow creatures,” said Charlotte.

      “It is never a success.”

      —I. Compton Burnett,

      Manservant and Maidservant

      Contents

       Fantasia on Dummy Keys

       Before Clocks Were Digital

       After the Fall

       Amazonas.com

       Erich Wolfgang Korngold

       The Last Newsboy

       Hitting the Silk

       Bargains Are by Definition Faustian

       Opposing Colonizations

       Robinson Crusoe to Capt. Dreyfus

       Energy Crises

       A Course in Sax Education

       Production Values

       Gowns by Adrian

       The Garden of Yellow Jack

       The Devil and Daedalus

       Fashions of 1903

       The Last Cigarette Girl

       Dance

       Free Trade in Mitteleuropa

       Where Is Gutzon Borglum Now That We Need Him?

       Inventing the Subdivision

       The Last Elevator Operator, or, Mr. Otis Regrets

       Edith and Woody and Nancy and Ronnie

       Fishers of Men

       Unto Temptation

       Guidelines for a Cover Illustration

       Crystal But Not Crystal Ball

       Models

       The Last Chaperon

       Update for Francis Joseph

       The Passion of 1934

       Administrating

       One Third of a Triptych

       Self-Guided Tour

       Report of the Monuments Commission

       Eclogue against Ecology

       Soldiers Three in the Big Easy

       Afterward

      Devils & Islands

      Fantasia