Real things : an anthology of popular culture in American poetry / edited by Jim Elledge and Susan Swartwout.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Elledge, Jim, 1950-, Swartwout, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ℗♭1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Hygiene
  • Mid-Year Report: For Haruko
  • Pay Up or Else
  • Why We Bombed Haiphong
  • The Shower Scene in Psycho
  • No Superman Was Not the Only One
  • note passed to superman
  • Superman Is Dead
  • If I Were Rita Hayworth
  • Famous Women
  • Claudette Colbert
  • Up
  • The Gypsy Teaches Her Grandchild Wolfen Ways
  • Frankenstein
  • The Bride of Frankenstein
  • St. Clare's Underwear
  • Kong Breaks a Leg at the William Morris Agency
  • Francis Ford Coppola and Anthropologist Interpreter Teaching Gartewienna Tribesmen to Sing "Light My Fire " Philippine Jungle 1978
  • Suzie Wong Doesn't Live Here
  • Suzy Wong's Been Dead a Long Time
  • Soap Bubbles
  • Scene from the Movie GIANT
  • James Dean & the Pig
  • Mom Did Marilyn Dad Did Fred
  • The Death of Marilyn Monroe
  • [I have come to claim / Marilyn Monroe's body]
  • Marilyn Monroe Indian
  • November 22 1983
  • Jackie in Cambodia
  • from "Some Adventures of John Kennedy Jr."
  • The Man I Love and I Have a Typical Evening the Night Richard M. Nixon Dies
  • The End of the Reagan Era
  • Viet Kong
  • Blue Suede Shoes
  • A Story of Stonewall
  • Lonely Tylenol
  • An Anointing
  • The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke
  • Coca-Cola and Coco Frio
  • No Deposit No Returns
  • Why Don't I?
  • Corpse and Mirror (III)
  • Barbie Says Math Is Hard
  • Barbie's Molester
  • Mannequins
  • Toys
  • My Father's Pornography
  • After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed
  • Breasts
  • A Personal History of Hands
  • The True Story of Snow White
  • Rapunzel
  • Hazel Tells LaVerne
  • Jack Afterwards
  • Peter Pan in North America
  • Self Portrait as Nancy Drew Girl Sleuth
  • Rumpelstiltskin Convention
  • Sonny's Purple Heart
  • One Meat Ball
  • The Day They Eulogized Mahalia
  • Iowa Blues Bar Spiritual
  • Echoes
  • Liberace
  • We Encounter Nat King Cole as We Invent the Future
  • Mythology
  • The Black Back-Ups
  • Motown / Smokey Robinson
  • Dizzy Girls in the Sixties
  • Woodstock
  • The First Rock and Roll Song of 1970
  • "It's Only Rock and Roll but I Like It": The Fall of Saigon 1975
  • Blonde Ambition
  • Punk Pantoum
  • Teaching Poetry at Votech High Santa Fe the Week John Lennon Was Shot
  • Never Land
  • The Birth of Rhythm and Blues
  • Billie in Silk
  • Oshi
  • Homage to Elvis Homage to the Fathers
  • El Elvis
  • Come Back Elvis Come Back to Holyoke
  • Soap
  • from Ephemera Today on "All My Children"
  • In the Days of Rin-Tin-Tin
  • Funicello at 50
  • When I Think About America Sometimes (I Think of Ralph Kramden)
  • David Cassidy Then
  • Gilligan's Island
  • Postmodern: A Definition
  • TV in Black and White
  • Tv
  • The Talk Show
  • Misguided Angels
  • Ghosts
  • The Apparition
  • Jeane Dixon's America
  • Tabloid News
  • A Supermarket in California
  • Shopping for Midnight
  • The Man I Love and I Shop at Jewel
  • Mail Order Catalogs
  • Catalogue Army
  • Tradition and Change
  • For Emily (Dickinson)
  • Thrift Shop Ladies
  • The Novelty Shop
  • Shoplifting
  • Shoplifters
  • Whitman
  • The Decisions
  • Siamese Twins in Love
  • My Son Shows Me a Photograph of Michael Jordan Performing a Slam Dunk
  • Mantle
  • The Incognito Lounge
  • Romance
  • Days of 1981
  • 8-Ball at the Twilite
  • Ted's Bar and Grill
  • A Story Often Told in Bars: The Reader's Digest Version
  • The Stripper
  • The Dancing Sunshine Lounge
  • Dreaming at the Rexall Drug
  • Waitress
  • On the Bearing of Waitresses
  • The All-Night Diner
  • Lunch with Girl Scouts
  • Vanna White's Bread Pudding
  • 'mericn fst fd
  • Short-Order Cook
  • Arrowhead Christian Center and No-Smoking Luncheonette
  • By-products
  • Why That's Bob Hope
  • Of Time and the Line
  • The Counterfeit Earth!
  • Harold and Imogene
  • The Motorcyclists
  • Indian Car
  • In the Black Camaro
  • The Lady in the Pink Mustang
  • Because You're American
  • Take Good Care of Yourself
  • Lost Parents
  • Scrabble
  • Off from Swing Shift
  • Moon Winx Motel
  • Outside Room Six
  • In the Bluemist Hotel
  • Transient Hotel Sky at the Hour of Sleep
  • Tattoo #47 "Happy Dragon"
  • Pornography Nebraska
  • In a U-Haul North of Damascus
  • The Man She Called Honey and Married
  • After the Wedding Party
  • Ikon
  • Pickup.