THE BASTARD AND THE BISHOP

by Gerald Fleming

Overview

Gerald Fleming is the author of five books of poetry (three from HL) and numerous books for teachers. He taught for thirty-seven years in San Francisco's public schools, has edited literary magazines traditional, epistolary, and vitreous, and recently edited The Collected Poetry and Prose of Lawrence Fixel (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2020). He lives most of the year in the Far West, and, if there's no plague occurring, part of the year in Paris.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934909706
Publisher:	Hanging Loose Press
Publication date:	05/17/2021
Pages:	74
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Gerald Fleming is the author of five books of poetry including THE BASTARD AND THE BISHOP (Hanging Loose Press, 2021), ONE (Hanging Loose Press, 2017), THE CHOREOGRAPHER (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013), NIGHT OF PUR BREATHING (Hanging Loose Press, 2011), and SWIMMER CLIMBING ONTO SHORE (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2005) and numerous books for teachers. He taught for thirty-seven years in San Francisco's public schools, has edited literary magazines traditional, epistolary, and vitreous, and recently edited THE COLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE OF LAWRENCE FIXEL (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2020). He lives most of the year in the Far West, and, if there's no plague occurring, part of the year in Paris.

Table of Contents

1 And the Strangers Do Stay

Let's organize a parade of one-legged war heroes, the President said 3

And the Strangers Do Stay, For They Are Indefatigable 4

Chapel 5

Island 6

Progression 7

In Recall 8

Outside Las Cruces 9

The fires two hundred miles away, 10

Response 11

Collector of Tides 12

The Old Books 13

Club 14

Blue Iris 15

Lookout 16

Name Day 17

The tunnel foreman, 18

He wondered if his parents were too kind to him, 19

Brocade Dress 21

The Collagist 22

2 Passage

The Bastard and the Bishop 25

At the Visitors' Center 27

Refugee 28

In Cactus 29

Passage 30

Persephone Off the Runway 31

To view the fireworks, then, 32

Get him out of the wind, 33

Over There 34

Shot 35

Second Door 37

Sister, they called him, 38

At last the monochromist couldn't sustain it- 40

The Listening Room 41

The Black Book 43

Grand Design 44

3 This Water

The Jokers 49

My Andalusian friend, 50

The Sentimentalist 52

Winter Coat 53

To My Friend Bill, in the Ethers 54

In Silence 55

The nightshift brickmakers listen to Beethoven on their lunch break- 56

Nurse 57

Connect 59

In the cemetery we're between worlds and speak of Kafka's Josef K.- 60

At the Lighthouse 61

Fisherman 62

He was the kind of man who invited everyone he met to his house, 63

Night Scholar 64

The composer said that birdsong was "God's language," 65

This Water 66

The Weeping Man, Paris 67

Notes to the Reader 69