“I have long believed that Lynn Emanuel is one of the most innovative and subversive poets now writing in America. Her aesthetic and artistic choices consistently invoke a complex hybrid poetics that radically reimagines the shape of our poetic discourse. The brilliant, shattering, and disturbing poems of Noose and Hook are not only wry critiques of recent poetic and cultural activity in this country but also compelling signposts to what yet might be possible in our future. This is Lynn Emanuel's most exquisite and powerful book yet.”—David St. John
contents My Life 1 Part One “Martinis, filets and cigarettes, tea sandwiches” 5 “The living teetered at the edge of a cliff” 6 The Revolution 8 “Into the clearing of . . . ” 10 “Personal experiences are chains and balls” 12 The Occupation 14 Homage to George Herriman 15 Metamorphosis 16 Part Two. The Mongrelogues: Two Acts Dramatis Personae 21 Stray Dogg 22 How Dogg Got Its Name 23 Interior Mongrelogue 24 Dogg House 25 Tuff Times 26 Hungree? 27 Dogg. Tired. 28 Dogg of Warr 29 Dogg’s Refusal 30 Mad Dogg 31 Abandoned Dogg 32 Hang Dogg 33 Who Iz Dogg? 35 Whut i Wood Like To Bee If i Wuzn’t Whut i Am 36
Part Three Dream In Which I Meet Myself 41 “Dear Diary, here in New York City” 42 “Hello, Mallarmé” 43 “I tried to flatter myself into extinction” 45 “While my mother lies in a hospital bed tethered to the earth” 46 “These days, Ou sont les neiges d’antan? I often wonder” 47 “Like that time in Paris” 49 “I told my student Kimber Lester if you cannot actually write” 51 “April 18, the 21st Century” 53 Dedication 56 “Dear Final Journey” 57 Notes 59 Acknowledgments 61
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