From discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco's X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face of a baffling universe. Peppered between the X poems, artists as varied as Artemisia Gentileschi, Frank O'Connor, and Nick Cave surface, usually in poems posing as essays about their art. Other poems range from explorations of cultural perspective, as in "A Few Words to a Young American Killed in the Tet Offensive, " where a war resister addresses a young man of his generation who died in Vietnam, to the often playful "An Alphabet of Things." Throughout, Falco's poems speculate on matters of life and faith, intensified by an awareness of death.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- X & the Spider
- X on Big Bass Lake
- Girl on a Rooftop
- The Ruined Garden
- After Your Call
- A Short Essay about Heartbreak
- A Short Essay about Illusions
- X & the Boy
- X & Death
- Essay: On Jay DeFeo’s The Rose
- Essay: On Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes
- Essay: On Delacroix’s The Shipwreck of Don Juan
- X a Little Drunk, at 20
- X at 70, a Walk in the Woods
- Picture Taken on a Country Road
- As a Storm Approaches
- X in the Tickseed
- X on Fear & Joy
- A Few Words to a Young American Killed in the Tet Offensive
- Essay: On Frank O’Connor’s “Guests of the Nation”
- X’s Shocked Heart
- X & Snow
- Essay: On Edgar Allan Poe
- Essay: On Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
- X & the Exigencies of Daily Life
- X’s Relationship to Prayer
- Amazing Machine the Body
- In the Kentucky Mountains
- An Alphabet of Things
- X & His Family
- X & Nick Cave
- Three Views of a Lake
- Narcissus
- X & Night
- X & Wind
- Three Thoughts on the Summer of 2020
- Accidents
- Three Transmutations of a Memory
- X & Music
- X & the Seasons
- Notes
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