Why We Go To Zoos

✍ Scribed by Noah Leznoff

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 85
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If Ezra Pound were on speed, this is the book he would write. Leznoff's work is gritty, urban and sensual, yet it is lyrical, funny and well-crafted. He has mastered a diversity of forms from concrete and language-based poetry to more traditional narrative work. Leznoff turns a trip to the supermarket into an epic adventure, while finding dark and touching insights into his characters on the side of a mountain in northern Quebec. His agility of writing style is only matched by the mastery of telling a good story.

✦ Table of Contents

Why We Go To Zoos......Page 4
I. Headland......Page 12
Face Painting For Helen......Page 14
And......Page 16
Girl or cat......Page 17
Why We Go to Zoos......Page 18
Supermarket Lobster Story......Page 21
Circadian......Page 23
Text as Amphetamine......Page 24
Dancing for the Boy Next Door......Page 25
The Obvious......Page 26
Saturday Walking......Page 27
Beehive......Page 29
Tit Mountain......Page 32
Saint Max......Page 33
Fisherman's Back Porch......Page 34
II. The Variance of Bone and Bleb......Page 36
Jingle......Page 38
Unscheduled Break......Page 39
Barbara, Dental Hygienist......Page 40
Soundtrack to Kigali......Page 42
You can't stare 'em down, it's like a law......Page 44
Smoker's Reckoning......Page 45
Free Poem......Page 46
A Letter to Alice......Page 47
Rough Accounting......Page 52
Lunch Hour......Page 53
The Surgeon General......Page 55
Neat's Foot Oil......Page 56
A Philistine Reads the Literary Supplement......Page 57
On The Order of the Solar Temple......Page 58
Eschatology......Page 59
III. Scissors, Rock, Paper......Page 60
Conversations With Luigi......Page 62
Performance Anxiety......Page 65
The wind is blowing me away!......Page 67
Scissors, Rock, Paper......Page 68
Landing......Page 70
Still Life......Page 71
It was Clean and Good......Page 72
Land of a Million......Page 73
Joe's Holiday......Page 75
Rain Wear......Page 77
Repairman to his royal......Page 78
2 Down......Page 79
In Moonlight After Rain......Page 80