WHERE ROBOT MICE & ROBOT MEN
RUN ROUND IN ROBOT TOWNS

A collection of poems by Ray Bradbury. 

CONTENTS:

  • Prologue

  • Byzantium I Come Not From

  • What I Do Is Me—For That I Came

  • I Am the Residue of All My Daughters' Lives

  • We March Back to Olympus

  • Ghost at the Window, Hive on the Hearth

  • Boy Pope Behold! Dog Bishop See!

  • I Have a Brother, Mostly Dead

  • Why Viking Lander, Why the Planet Mars?

  • We Have Our Arts So We Won't Die of Truth

  • I Die, So Dies the World

  • My Love, She Weeps at Many Things 

  • Death as a Conversation Piece

  • Remembrance II

  • J.C.—Summer '28

  • The Young Galileo Speaks

  • The Beast Atop the Building, the Tiger on the Stairs

  • Why Didn't Someone Tell Me About Crying in the Shower?

  • Somewhere a Band Is Playing

  • The Nefertiti—Tut Express

  • Telephone Friends, in Far Places

  • Death for Dinner, Doom for Lunch

  • Out of Dickinson by Poe, or The Only Begotten Son of Emily and Edgar

  • Lo, the Ghost of Our Least Favorite Uncle

  • That Son of Richard III

  • A Poem with a Note: All England Empty, the People Flown

  • The Syncopated Hunchbacked Man

  • If Man Is Dead, Then God Is Slain

  • Thoughts on Visiting the Main Rocket Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral for the First Time

  • Their Names in Dust, Their Dates in Grass

  • Long Thoughts on Best-Sellers by Worst People 


PUBLISHING INFORMATION:

  • First Edition: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1977 (hardcover)