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Joe Roarty

Choruses I, 2005

Poems by Joe Roarty
40 pp., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2",
Perfect bound paperback
ISBN: 1-933126-23-X

Joe Roarty is possibly Chicago's premiere beat poet. This fried of Ginsberg and Corso continues to move his work along a steady line of the hand drum he often uses to accentuate, drive, and punctuate his readings. The strength of this full-time poet is in combining the precision of his lines with the surreal and fantastic power of his premises and conceptualiations.

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Contents - Click Table of Contents to see poem titles

• Table of Contents

chromenights/ 1
u see her in black raiders cap/ 1
shattered star/ 2
a knockn on my door/ 2
She was talking to everyone/ 3
LaTrice wears yellow/ 3
in the alcohol ward/ 4
careless of herself/ 5
Her eyes were bright/ 5
the usual desire/ 6
And now Satan comes into my home/ 7
better to get fukd up in hell/ 8
And so Satan his thoughts/ 8
Old woman in a dark coat/ 9
hecalledittheworld’sshortestpoem/ 9
reading poetry in a bar/ 10
I’m the toughest hole/ 10
no strike zone/ 10
implacable stranger/ 11
Too late – Poem for Lorri Jackson/ 12
her fury wings – Another Poem for Lorri Jackson/ 13
what glows up – Poem for Tom Luplow/ 14
when the tune runs out of gas/ 15
mark time/ 15
SOMEbodyzzzz gonna fuckn PAYYYYY/ 16
TRANE/ 17
Black horn/ 17
uh one/ 18
KARMALODICS/ 19
And he’s/ 20
i saw neechuh/ 20
& as she drove/ 21
but then/ 21
Venus wears black gloves/ 22
delphic shriek/ 22
w/out sun or moon/ 23
chemical self/ 24
cos i knew they were doin blo/ 24
weeSURGgge on words over rage/ 25
while dave tells/ 25
knife cuts cold/ 26
everyone is talking about religion/ 27
we should be more than we are/ 27
hallways/ 28
If I could write a poem/ 29
beware/ 30
White noise in a black box/ 31
freaks in the basement/ 31
the tremendous collisions happen/ 32
made a spurious freedom/ 33

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