The alphabet of desire / Barbara Hamby.
| Author/creator | Hamby, Barbara, 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : New York University Press, |
| Description | xii, 103 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Contents | The word -- Millennium rave -- Blood -- The ex-goddess speaks -- The hunter -- The chicken-wire girls -- With Sonya -- Beriberi -- Mr. Pillow -- Paper -- Cut -- Hey, Udine! -- Thinking of Galileo -- The dream of the red drink -- Achtung, my princess, good night -- Beelzebub the prowl -- Cruelty -- Dad, Dave, deluge, death -- Elliot and I discuss Eliot via Macbeth -- Footbinding as a way of life -- Gospel -- Hatred -- Irony waltz -- Jane Austen jambalaya -- Kamehameha Drive-in, 25 years later -- Laudanum for everyone -- Midnight the Piazza della Signoria -- Noli me tangere, stupid -- Origami ragtime -- Pas de deux with incubi -- Quel scandale, darling -- Reichsführer blues -- So long, Roy -- Trigger tries to explain -- Uccello, Filippo Lippi, Leonardo -- Valentine for Martin Luther -- Woo -- X-ray of your brain at 4 a.m. -- Yellow fever -- Zugzwang amore -- Ode on my wasted youth -- Ode to Italian fruit -- Ode to money -- Ode to public bathrooms -- Ode to insects -- Ode to warts -- Ode to teeth -- Ode to untoward dreams -- Ode to black and white movies -- Ode to breath -- Ode to castrati -- Ode to my bitterness -- Ode to the lost luggage warehouse at the Rome Airport. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 98058063 |
| ISBN | 0814735975 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0814735983 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |