THE HAUNTED COMPUTER AND THE ANDROID POPE

The Haunted Computer & the Android PopeCONTENTS:

  • The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope
  • Go Not with Ruins in Your Mind
  • Poem from a Train Window
  • Nor Is the Aim of Man to Stay Beneath a Stone
  • Joy Is the Grace We Say to God
  • They Have Not Seen the Stars
  • This Attic Where the Meadow Greens 
  • Abandon in Place
  • The Great Man Speaks
  • Shakespeare the Father, Freud the Son
  • A Miracle of Popes, All with One Face!
  • The Bike Repairmen
  • The East Is Up!
  • If Peaches Could Be Painters
  • Once the Years Were Numerous and the Funerals Few
  • Satchmo Saved!
  • God Blows the Whistle
  • The Infirmities of Genius
  • Farewell Summer
  • The Dogs of Mesopotamia—Dyed by Spring
  • Two Impressionists
  • And Yet the Burning Bush Has Voice
  • To an Early Morning Darning-Needle Dragonfly
  • Poem Written on a Train Just Leaving a Small Southern Town 
  • Too Much
  • There Are No Ghosts in Catholic Spain
  • I Am God's Greatest Basking Hound
  • Doing Is Being
  • Ode to an Utterance by Norman Corwin, Who Punned the First Line, and Must Suffer the Rest
  • Nectar and Ambrosia
  • We Are the Reliquaries of Lost Time
  • Anybody Who Can Make Great Strawberry Shortcake Can't Be All Bad
  • And Have You Seen God's Birds Collide?
  • You Can't Go Home Again, Not Even If You Stay There!
  • Schliemann
  • Of What Is Past, or Passing, or To Come
  • Within a Summer Frame
  • Ode to Ty Cobb, Who Stole First Base from Second
  • GBS and the Loin of Pork
  • Let Us Live But Safely, No Bright Flags Be Ours
  • Everyone's Got to Be Somewhere
  • The Past Is the Only Dead Thing that Smells Sweet
  • Ode to Trivia
  • Good Shakespeare's Son, the Typing Ape
  • Que Bella! The Flagella of the Beasts
  • Pope Android Seventh

PUBLISHING INFORMATION:

  • First Edition: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981 (hardback)