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About the Size of It

Tom Disch

First published 2007
Publisher Anvil Press Poetry
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art André Kertész
Pages 157
Price £9.95
ISBN 9780856463914


• Month from Locus1
• $16.95 in the US.
• Cover artist on back cover of Archive.org copy; art is titled Empire State in a Puddle, September 17, 1967, New York.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
11 The Dot on the i Tom Disch Poem
13 A Tom Disch Poem
15 The Thought That Counts Tom Disch Poem
18 The Size of the World Tom Disch Poem
21 The Vindication of Obesity Tom Disch Poem
27 Red Tulips in 1947 Tom Disch Poem
31 A Centenary Observation Tom Disch Poem
32 Duelling Platitudes Tom Disch Poem
34 The Flesh's Wedding Tom Disch Poem
35 The Ferris Wheel Tom Disch Poem
37 Not Quite a Sonnet But I Love You Just the Same Tom Disch Poem
38 A Cape Mendocino Rose Tom Disch Poem
39 Riddle Tom Disch Poem
40 Three People and Their Feelings Tom Disch Poem
42 A Treatise on the Common Cold Tom Disch Poem
44 In Memoriam Tom Disch Poem
45 Yorick's Reply Tom Disch Poem
46 Juliet, Voice Over Tom Disch Poem
47 Gilda: An Entr'acte Tom Disch Poem
48 Buying a Used Car Tom Disch Poem
49 Medusa at Her Vanity Tom Disch Poem
50 A Gravedigger's Soliloquy Tom Disch Poem
52 The Varieties of Oneiric Experience Tom Disch Poem
54 The Rapture Tom Disch Poem
55 Ode to Equanimity Tom Disch Poem
57 The Last Time I Saw Paris Tom Disch Poem
61 Villanelle for Charles Olson Tom Disch Poem
62 The Book in Your Hand Tom Disch Poem
63 'Ritin' Tom Disch Poem
65 Womankind and Poesy Tom Disch Poem
66 Colloquy Tom Disch Poem
67 Gods Tom Disch Poem
68 The Cubist Paints of Lesser Museums Tom Disch Poem
69 At the Van Gogh Museum Tom Disch Poem
71 Fashion Statements Tom Disch Poem
74 Quilt Tom Disch Poem
75 Inventory Tom Disch Poem
77 A Galop for Cesar Franck Tom Disch Poem
79 Symphonic Ode for St. Cecilia's Day Tom Disch Poem
87 The Crumbling Infrastructure Tom Disch Poem
89 Class Notes Tom Disch Poem
91 Death Wish IV Tom Disch Poem
92 Nether: A Traveller's Notes Tom Disch Poem
93 A Stroll Through Moscow Tom Disch Poem
95 Haikus of an AmPart Tom Disch Poem
99 We Are Divided Everywhere in Two Parts Tom Disch Poem
102 Slouches Tom Disch Poem
104 Rules of Order for New Conservatives Tom Disch Poem
105 Summer of '88 Tom Disch Poem
107 Centennial Tankas Tom Disch Poem
108 Pervigilium Veneris, 1991 Tom Disch Poem
109 To the Young Mercenaries Tom Disch Poem
110 After Péguy Tom Disch Poem
111 A Benevolent Demi-Villanelle Tom Disch Poem
112 Systems of Mourning Tom Disch Poem
113 In a Time of Plagues Tom Disch Poem
114 A War Memorial Tom Disch Poem
115 Waking Early New Year's Day, Without a Hangover Tom Disch Poem
117 Jerusalem Recaptured Tom Disch Poem
123 The Return to Nature Tom Disch Poem
131 Sylvan Marriage Tom Disch Poem
133 Birdsong Interpreted Tom Disch Poem
134 Nightmare on Elm Street Tom Disch Poem
135 The Dirt and the Willow Tom Disch Poem
137 Coming To Tom Disch Poem
140 Brief Lives Tom Disch Poem
141 The Mushrooms' Salon Tom Disch Poem
142 The Last Shows of Summer Tom Disch Poem
143 September Tom Disch Poem
144 October Tom Disch Poem
145 Indian Spring Tom Disch Poem
147 Rocks on a Winter Evening Tom Disch Poem
148 Theseus to Hippolyta Tom Disch Poem
149 Songs of the Rooftops Tom Disch Poem
151 The Squirrel Tom Disch Poem
152 Dialogue with a Spider Tom Disch Poem
153 The Chameleon and the Butterfly Tom Disch Poem
154 The Hawk and the Metaphor Tom Disch Poem
155 Remarks Concerning the Fitness of All Things Tom Disch Poem
156 Mahler's 8th Tom Disch Poem