The Laughter of Adam and Eve

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1; The Laughter of Adam and Eve: A Detail; New Covenant, Causality; The One Who Knows All Language; Brouhaha; At the Akhmatova Museum, Fountain House Annex; Signs and Wonders; Film Clips of Munkacs, 1933; Gunga Din; Saint Kevin, Blackbird, and Others; No Script; Part 2; Resignation Bird; Sleeping with a Woman Who Writes; The Love of Pygmalion; Lover; A as Insignia; Vile; That Dream, Your Dream, She Says; Enemies; Her Pleasure in Herself; Fashion Show; Plague Tale; In a Breath; Mytheme; What Old David Felt; Religion, Then Science.

Part 3To One at Risk; This My Failure This My Life This My; Regret; First Things; Escaped to Tell; Passengers Will . . .; At Day's End, as at the End of Any Day; Evening; Letting It in a Little; That The Compensations of Art; Spend, Spend; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover.

Near the beginning, just after the fall, was laughter-at least as Jason Sommer imagines it. In the title poem, Eve catches Adam's hilarity over what passes for a tree outside of Eden, their laughter a heady combination of longing, defiance, and perhaps even relief, through which they find they now possess "a knowledge of evil that is good," an understanding that will carry them through life after paradise. Through settings mythical, historical and biblical, through characters that range from Gunga Din to St. Kevin of Glendalough, the poems in this book often search out meaning in the.

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