| Contents |
They were waiting in the airport ... -- Will someone please explain to me ... -- I don't want to fling accusations ... -- A person who liked tearooms said ... -- Mother was in the hospital ... -- Are all Christian Scientists like ... -- A color photograph taken ... -- Kurt is the middle son of a ... -- If the real things in life are all ... -- When their older son came home ... -- I belong to the older ... -- He had been an exchange student ... -- There is a footnote. Several years ... -- "Driving back from Marin at night ..." -- "I had to go all the way to ..." -- "All your life while you're growing up ..." -- She grew up in Chicago, across ... -- She waited till her boyfriend was ... -- She had a high IQ -- her teachers ... -- The daughter did not wait idly ... -- "Having gotten away with murder ..." -- Edward R. Murrow, it was, had ... -- I believe life is a dubious ... -- His mother was seventeen years ... -- Friday afternoon I caught the ... -- Sunday morning Father Jeffrey ... -- Father Jeffrey wrote that George ... -- After everyone left I helped ... -- When my aunt the Abbess was ... -- Late one night a message came ... -- Father's house had been furnished ... -- She wanted, she wrote, a husband ... -- Raining. And invited to her ... -- A murderer kills human flesh ... -- It doesn't excuse his rudeness ... -- Rollerdrome -- AFM Dash 4 -- Truth -- Virgil at Pittsburg, Kans -- Ars(e) Poetica -- Not Michelangelo's David -- Banker -- Arthur and Mae -- Vietnam Story -- Lullaby -- Card Reading -- Beloved Disciple -- Crime and Punishment -- Ploesti -- Grievance -- The Millionaire -- Barracks 1177 -- What Do You Want? -- To a Virgin, to Make Much of Entropy -- On the Occasion When an Eminent New Critic Was Unable to Have a Student's Work Published in a College Quarterly -- Opening Chorus of Cricket Players for an Opera Based on The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh -- Kevin, who reads my poems in ... -- The letter was from this person ... -- When I was growing up all the ... -- This young man has read all my ... -- Real English poets have only ... -- In high school I could never ... -- After that first year of college ... -- Emma was here for supper last ... -- It's not as if Emma hasn't ... -- It didn't take long deciding ... -- Kevin takes this condom business ... -- Sex was so much simpler in the ... -- AIDS has made Kevin into some- ... -- We were going out to dinner ... -- Buttons' last year was not an easy ... -- What is there about cats that makes ... -- Kevin dreamed last night that Buttons ... -- A bureaucrat may be defined ... -- Kevin asks why a man in his ... -- I wasn't all that innocent ... -- Wheeler Gibson dropped out of ... -- We were in Father Gene's office ... -- Sheep being separated ... -- This morning without any ... -- In a country that loves cults ... -- How disappointing that the world ... -- I don't think a person can be ... -- I asked my father once why he ... -- "What do you do?" "You know very ..." -- There comes a moment in every ... -- My chat pile kitty from Webb City ... -- My grandfather discovered lead ... -- The first time my sister admitted ... -- How can you tell a person is ... -- After visits to several doctors ... -- In the nursing home she is known ... -- When I was a student, teachers ... -- The last time I saw her, mother ... -- Michael called twice, the first time ... -- Men who like women are boring ... |
| General note | "This first edition is published in paper wrappers and in a cloth trade edition; 75 copies have been numbered & signed by the author; & 22 copies lettered A-V with an original holograph poem have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray & are signed by the author." -- colophon |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Purchased from Oak Knoll Books, 1/15/2023 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Smith, Fred, 1933- Rollerdrome and the millionaire. Santa Rosa, CA : Black Sparrow Press, 2002 |
| Genre/form | Gay poetry. |
| Genre/form | Gay poetry. |
| LCCN | 2002018479 |
| ISBN | 1574231855 (signed ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231854 (signed ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1574231847 (cloth trade ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231847 (cloth trade ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1574231839 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231830 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
