- Chaldea and I Dig Girls
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CHALDEA and I DIG GIRLS Author(s) Nick Tosches Country United States Language English Genre(s) Poetry Publisher CUZ Editions (USA) Publication date 1999 (USA) Media type Print (Paperback) Pages 35 pp (hardback first edition) ISBN 096632850 CHALDEA and I DIG GIRLS is a collection of 25 poems and one short story by Nick Tosches. Selections were previously published in such places as Open City, Contents, Lowest Common Denominator, GQ, Long Shot and Smokes Like a Fish. The cover features an engraving of Mithraic Kronos from AD 190. The first edition was limited to 537 copies, 26 were numbered A-Z, and 11 were signed by the author.
Chaldea refers to portion of Babylon that included the southern Tigris and Euphrates area.
Contents
CHALDEA
- What the Coptic Guy Said
- May the Gods Without Names Redeem Me
- Dante in Ravenna
- I with a Knife to the Throat of Cybele
- From the Dreambook of Artemidorus
- A Feast for the Eyes
- Ptolemy II
- My Kind of Loving
- Old Nick's Song of Songs
- The Moist and the Dry
- If I were Robert Stack
- What I, as Robert Stack, Would Eat
- What Bob Stack Et
- Invocation
- All My Gods Have Always Been Broads
- Imperium
- Unwilled Prayer of Evil to the Demon of the Meadow
- Hymn to Paean, Physician to the Gods
- Erebos
- Erinys
- In the Hospital
- Ophis Ovum Opium Olé
- Contrapasso
- Favaglione 9/16/96
- All of Gust and Sigh
I DIG GIRLS
- I Dig Girls
See also
- Blue Eyes And Exit Wounds, a spoken word collaboration with Hubert Selby, Jr. containing a few Chaldea poems.
- fuckthelivingfuckthedead, a live recording of a poetry reading by Tosches which includes many of the poems in this collection
- For the taking: Vol. I from CHALDEA, an album featuring spoken word performances by Tosches with electronic soundscapes.
References
Categories:- Books by Nick Tosches
- 1999 books
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