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title	:	Laughing Africa : Poems
author	:	Svoboda, Terese.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877452725
print isbn13	:	9780877452720
ebook isbn13	:	9781587292354
language	:	English
subject	American poetry.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	PS3569.V6L3 1990eb
ddc	:	811/.54
subject	:	American poetry.

Page i Laughing Africa

Page ii Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize

Page iii Laughing Africa Poems by Terese Svoboda University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1990 by Terese Svoboda All rights reserve Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1990 Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Svoboda, Terese. Laughing Africa: poems/by Terese Svoboda. 1st ed. p. cm. (The Iowa poetry prize) ISBN 0-87745-280-6 (alk. paper), ISBN 0-87745-272-5 (pbk., alk. paper) I. Title. II. Series. PS3569.V6L3 1990 89-20520 811'.54 dc20 CIP Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which some of these poems first appeared: Paris Review, Pequod, Pennsylvania Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Chelsea, Prairie Schooner, Tar River Poetry, New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, Manhattan Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, 5 A.M., Columbia, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, American Poetry Review, Boulevard, New Yorker, and Yale Review. The author also wishes to thank the Corporation of Yaddo. Printed on acid-free paper

Page v To Anne Marie Walsh Svoboda and Carolyn Stoloff

Page vi Publication of this book was made possible by a generous grant from the University of Iowa Foundation

Page vii CONTENTS I Laughing Africa 3 Captain Andy 8 The Dead Dance 11 No Historical Marker 20 Color 22 Komodo Dragon 29 Water Ballet 33 Cowboy 35 Beyond Borders 38 Slaughter of the Centaurs 41 Conquistador 43 Nothing Beautiful except in Things 45 Do Machines Bleed? 47 II The Ranchhand's Daughter 51 III The Root of Mother Is Moth 69 New Lincoln Penny 70 Shell 71 Permission to Live 72 Heartshape 73 Carwash Kiss 76

Page viii Rite 77 As the Birds 79 Single Parent Wants to See a Film but Has No Sitter 81 My Portrait 83 Pink 84 The Sixties 85 His Dark 87 Blessing 90 Night Sail 92 Dumb Husband 94 Spiders 96 Woman with Happiness inside Her 99 The Needle with Both Hands

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