The drunken driver has the right of way : poems

Summary: The creative filmmaker who wrote and produced "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" offers a provocative, revealing, and often hilarious collection of poems that offers insights into an artist who has always pushed the boundaries of his craft.

Item details

ISBN: 0609609467
ISBN: 9780609609460
ISBN: 9780307462695
ISBN: 0307462692
Physical Description: print
137 pages ; 20 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, ©2001.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Mr. Sands -- To O -- The drunken driver has the right of way -- Tale of the Yukon -- On Davey Jones -- For what it's worth -- Anthropology -- Old age -- Horns -- After Bukowski -- Such sweet sorrow -- C. Darwin -- Three places -- Agent elegy -- The hopping poem -- The fable of C. Edgar Botts -- I love you deeply, darling -- My dream and what I make of it -- Back when the world was fresh and new -- Limericks -- More limericks: sons of Abraham -- What, then, is the point? Clean limericks -- Reunion -- A naughty verse -- Is this thing on? -- Never-ending remembrance -- The twa duncies -- Johnny Pigass -- On being nye -- Hereafter -- Should beasts be met -- The little flower girl -- Self-portrait -- I am born -- A man can dream -- Lament -- Something for everyone -- The road to heaven -- Bloomingdales, or, ontology -- Churchyard -- Dog, debonair -- Retirement plan -- If I may -- The mental garden -- Toppled in the street -- The wrestler: a fragment -- I am finished -- Solution -- To a dear lady -- April is tornado season in Minnesota -- O Yale man -- Reminding me of someone whose bed does not, and son does, spring out -- You want spooky -- To a young woman, mained by a reaper -- I have a dream -- Model -- Riddle -- The wise man -- How long, how late -- I dreamed I left my knapsack -- I dreamt I saw St. Augustin.