Monday, April 1, 2019

Allison Joseph's 19 books and 508 poems



In honor of her nomination for an NAACP Image Award for Poetry (ok, and part of my ongoing catalogs of her work), I decided to produce a roundup of Allison Joseph's books and poems.

[Click here for: Notes on Allison Joseph book collection.]


What Keeps Us Here (1992) -- 36 poems
Speculation
The Valley of the Shadow
Penny Candy
Dolls
Accomplices
After touring the Public Rooms
Creed
Limits of Imagination
Endurance
At That Moment
From a Household
Trying to Remember: One Trip Back
Bronx Brothers
The Idiot Box
Yard Work
The Sales Pitch
Territory: Sunday, City Island
Heartbreaker
Rationale
Family Life
For a God Mother
Falling Out of History
Broadside: from Decade's End
Immersion
Meditation at Month's End
Preservation
Inquiry
No Ways Tired
The Swath of Afternoon
In Fear of Sleep
Learning the Blues
Housesitting
Anticipation: for an Unborn Child
Late Letter
Faith
What Keeps Us Here


Soul Train (1997) -- 22 poems
Good Humor
Soul Train
Big Shots
Junior High Dance
Adolescence
Facts of Life
Home Girl Talks Childhood
To the Lost Daughters of the Bronx Science
In the Bookstore
Home Girl Steps Out
Ten Years Later
Home Girl Dreams A Dance Partner
"Dance Fever"
Young Marrieds
Persuasion
Exhibitionism
Soul Suite
Morning Kiss
Solace
The Inner Life
Nightclubbing
Wedding Party

In Every Seam (1997) -- 31
Summer on Screvin
On Sidewalks, On Streetcorners, as Girls
Traitor
Urban Games
Malice
Five and Dime
Playing Rough
Arts and Crafts
Barbie's Little Sister
Funny Pages
Fishing
Bribery
Artist-in-Residence
It's Tough to Be a Girl Scout in the City
My Father's Heroes
The Tenant
Day Tripping
Motives
The Swimming Pool
Senora Williams
Life Science
The Art of Wallejo
Talking to Marilyn
Screen Test
Higher Education
Academic Instructions
The First Time
The White People Next Door
Express Lane
Aftermath
Plenty

Imitation of Life (2003) - 25 poems
La Marqueta
Searching for Melinda's Magic Moment
The Black Santa
Questions About Toys
Translating My Parents
Double Dutch
Frying Hair
The Principal
Appetites
Bullies
Sleepaway Camp
Who You Calling Ugly? Or When Black Ceased to be Beautiful
Mrs. Gaither
What Friends Are For
School Lunches
What We Once Wore
Explaining Sex to the Seventh Grade
Fourteen
Music Appreciation
Anti-Prom
Supermercado
College Tour
Numbers
Cammie Cuts My Hair
Fellowship

Worldly Pleasures (2004) -- 42 poems
Souvenirs
Disobedience
Little Rascals
Chores
Notes from Childhood
Skinny Legs
Perfume
The Touch
Beauty Shop
Bargain Basement
prodigy
Purse
Nicknames
Crazy Eddie's Grovery and Variety
Block Party
Transistor
Classmate
Caroline
Physical Education
The Jealous Girl
The Shy Girl
The Dangerous Girl
The Dreamer
The Gossip
The Lazy Girl
The Athlete
Teacher's Pet
Fieldston Outdoors
Family Doctor
Caught in the Aisles
Lowbrow
Home Girl''s Retort
For Shame
Demand
Against Pathos
Living Large
Miss Patti
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Night Scenes
Worldly Pleasures
A Sermon

Voice: Poems (2009) -- 25 poems
Fear of a Performance Poet
Voice
Knitting
Something About Hotel Rooms
Emergency Library
Naïve Questions
Extraction
Pedestrian Blues
Tourist Attraction
Full Meal Deal
Whiner's Lounge
Really Mean Girls
Melancholia
Professor Inscrutable
Shopping List
To the DJ Who Played the Isley Brothers'
Eating Out
My Husband Plays Me Marley
Professor Apathy
Don't
What The Elder's Tell You
Do Me the Favor of
Prompt
Elegy for My Father's Anger
The Cost

My Father's Kites (2010) -- 45 poems
Bio Note
On Not Wanting to Write a Memoir
Elegy for the Personal Letter
Greeting Cards
My Father's Kites
Long Distance News
In the Classroom
First Consultation: Oritz Funeral Home
Personal Effects: Bronx Country Courthouse House, December 1997
The First Moment
In the Funeral Parlour
Countrymen
Before the Burial
How Sweet the Sound
Postmortem
Dress Code
What the Eye Beholds
Home Office
Temperament
Diabetes
Deferred
Flashback: Calvary Hospital, 1985
Luxury Car
Graduation Day, Kenyon College, 1988
My Father's Hand Mirror
Dereliction
Daughters Cleaning House
Former Bedroom
Atop the Console
Domicile
Parade of Cartoon Stars
Professions
Private Duty Nurse
Father's Lineage
First Call with My Uncle
A Conversation
Absence
First Birthday after Your Death: November 1998
Coda
Poem for My Grandfather
Absence Without Leave
This Letter Is An Attemp to Collect a Debt
The Payoff
Signatures
A Daughter's Villanelle


Trace Particles (2014) -- 11 poems
Hymnal
The Lolita Bed
Snow White
The Ghost of Tennessee Williams Visits Times Square, Circa 1984
Aunt Jemima’s Revenge
Stop! This Is the Women’s Bathroom
Serial
Trace Particles
Xenophilia
“Widow’s Weeds”
31 Shirts

Little Epiphanies (2015) -- 14 poems
Chain
The Truth About Public Transportation

Thirty Lines About the Fro
Sundown Ghazal
Little Epiphanies
A Love Note to Teenagers
The Middle Finger
Accessible
Ode to the Naked Mole Rat
Xenophilia
Sonnet for a Good Mood
A Prayer for Women's Bodies
Notebooks
To James Wright

Mercurial (2016) -- 24 poems
Somewhere in the North Bronx, Late Seventies
Her Chair
Pediophobia
The Pervert's Shoe
Different Dozens
Accident
Confederate Season
Sidewalks
Pro-Ana
Rondeau Redouble for the Women Left Behind
Fault
To Wanderlust
Curse Poem to the Weather Channel
Metabolism
Self-Portrait as Small-Twon Bus Depot
Columbia Record and Tape
Aubade in Which I Always Return
Ode to Sandals
Ode to the Red Dress
Period
Skinny Legs
When You Get Tired of Being Called Ugly
Ballade for Motherless Daughters
Aubade with New Poem

Mortal Rewards (2016) -- 18 poems
To Speak of Woe That Iss in Poetry
Self-Portrait as Abandoned Poem
Ode to My Cursive
In Praise of Stasis
Hotel Room Aubade
Libero
Weeping at Someone Else's Funeral
Curse poem to the Manufactures of Women's Clothing
Duet
Ars Poetica as Morning Run
How to Summon Your Inner Child
Ambivalent Love Letter to the 13-Year Male Cicada
Apologia to My Toes
Self-Dialouge: On Not Fgiving Birth
The Muse Quits Her Day Job
Broke Eternity
Catena Rondo: Women's Locker Room
Preservation Prayer

Multitudes (2016) -- 24 poems
Petition
Euphobia
Ode to My Mole
40 Plus 6
Ann Onymous
The Numerology of Kisses
Breast Ode
At Rochman Memorial Park
Door-to-Door
Ode to Kristie
Dear Goodwill Worker, These Are Not Fat Clothes
Me Versus the Treadmill
Poem In Which I Give My Body A Kiss
Multitudes
Slap
What Your Poetry Teacher Longs to Say
Mariposa
Running While the Campus Sleeps
Jump Rope
Biopsy
Elegy for Defunct Department Stores
Three Miles
Ode to Melatonin
Why Poets Should Dance

The Purpose of Hands (2016) -- 20 poems
Why Can’t I Swim
Something She Can Feel
Stitching
Typographical
Crazy
Endure
Such Sweet Sorrow
Educations
Faithful
Knowledge
Blank
PMS
Beware of Self
On Womanhood
Expletive
Petition
The Disappeared
The Purpose of Hands
Modern Maturity
One

Double Identity (2016) -- 28 poems
Not Coming Back
Parade of Abstractions
Material Girl Ghazal
Office Space
Double Identity
More Sins for Now People
Vocal Lessons
Desiderata in Sixth Grade Choir
An Appeal to the Poet About to Read
Retail
Vegas, Baby!
Instead of a Writer's Colony
Sonnet for a Scale
No Longer Keeping Up
After the Poetry Lecture
New rules for Princesses
Grimmspiration
80s Ladies
Postmortem: One Year
Side Piece
Map Making
Roadtripped
Through the Wall
Unconfirmed Success
A Note on Calamity
Surly Bonds
Pan-Atheist
Instructions to My Better Self

What Once You Loved (2017) -- 26 poems
What Once You Loved
Headline News
Weeding
Curse for an Errant Lover
Four-Chambered
Questions for a New Year
Night Writing
Insurrection
Ordinary Dress
Paradelle for Motown
Vocalize: For All the Closet Singers
Jealous of Maria
Churchwomen
The Ballad of Catherine Carmichael
High School Confidential
Enough
Ballad of the Night Before
Ghazal Fortitude
Ravenous
For Sheila in Purchasing
What They're Thinking While You're Reading Your Poems
Laureate
Grief: A Complaint
A Mourner's Prayer
Tongue
The Fitting

Surviving Artistry (2017) -- 22 poems
Prologue
Blistered
Vanished
Unpopular
Intake
Abandon
Show Off
Imposter
Severe Days
Incoming
Esteem
First Draft
Not the Help
Nobody Move, Mobody Gets Hurt
Revived
Whatever
Notes to Self: Ghazal
Book Lover's Ghazal
Ghazal
Sorrow Is An Altar
Epilogue
Born Again Ghazal

Taking Back Sad (2017) -- 14 poems
Ghazal With Lost Naturalization Certificate
Immigrant Girl
Don't Speak to Me
Memo from the Accused Girl
When We Leave
Memo from the English-Only Coalition
Precarious
In the Marketplace
Hymn of Intolerance
Why They Hate Us
Tacking Back Sad
Alternative Facts
One More Fight
In Hate We Trust

Corporal Muse (2018) -- 21 poems
Dictionary
Terrestrial
The Joining
New Book Talking
Susanna Jones, Now 80, Wears Red for the Last Time
If I Were a Song
A Plea to the Grammar Lady
You Can't Always Get
Corporal Muse
Poet's Love Spell
Chances Are: An Update
In Praise of Bugs
Yesterday, We All Grew Desperate
Mourning: An Art
Poem Arguing With a Line from Milosz
Self-Portrait as Ice Cream Truck
In Praise of Wussy Boys
Night Watch for Traveling Husband
To Sylvia
Necessities
Ghazal

Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (2018) -- 60 poems
On the Subway
In the Public Library
Future Doctor
Bad Dogs
First School Dance
Father's Mother
Reading Room
Childhood Ballade
Grown-Up Shoes
Perfect Ride
Spirit of '76
Little Brothers
Advice of Being a Pesky Little Sister
Penmanship
Nothing but Words
My Tutor
For Beauty's Sake
Dinner Hour
First Concert
Adolescent Confession
Poem for the Purchase of a First Bra
Elegy for Rick James
O Holy Night
Birth of a Nation
For My Brother
Some of My Best Friends Are White People
Headstone
After Shaving My Head, I Begin to Think Beauty Is Overrated
Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
A History of African-American Hair
To Be Young, Not-So-Gifted, and Black
The Reluctant Integrationist
Grace Jones at the Republican National Convention
The Other Allison
Vacations
Ex-New Yorkers
The Aisles of Misfit Equipment
The Vagina Business
In Praise of the Penis
Venus de Milo Takes a Sexual Enlightenment for Women Class
Nape
Why Men Whistle
On Viewing Two Different Date Rape Movies
Janis Joplin Visits Cheerleading Camp
Role Models
Daughter, Mother, Sister, Wife
What Women Want
Bad Meals Threaten Our Marriage
Flirtation
Junk Food
Dinner Party
Why I'm Not a Scholar
It Wasn't a Love Connection
The Ideal Listener
Homage to Leonardo Drew's Number
I Love You, Jimmy Poquette
Ballade for Dorothy Parker
Misery: A Guide
The Liars
Regrets

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