Contents
Introduction by Lawrence Joseph
Under the Carpathians
I.
Reverse Painting on Glass (Kandinsky)
The Inspector
Lviv, or Lwów
Ruthenia
The Meeting
A Message about Numbers
Morning, Allegheny River
The Interview
How Dickens Happens
Pastoral
When Icons Weep
II.
That Summer
Angelism
Therapy
My Father with Pulp Fiction, 1935
My Father Who Art in Heaven
Franklin
I Can’t Hear
Autumn Evening at the Window with Brushes
She Whispers
III.
To a Museum Guard at Shift Change
Origins of the Ruthenian
At the Crypt of the Church of Our Lady of the Veil
When in 2009 the G20 Summit Convened in Pittsburgh
What the Hermit Zosimus Said
Sister Rosaire Kopczenski Enters the Religious Life
The Old Anarchy
IV.
Paper Plates
I Hiked the Carpathians
Fired//On My 49th Birthday
Mary, Mary
My Mother’s Pirohi
This the Very Coinage of My Brain
I Love To Sleep Curled
The Ruthenian Lamb
from Warhol-O-Rama(2008)
Andy Warhol for Gods Who Must Be Crazy
Andy Warhol for Short Attention Spans
Andy Warhol for Catholics
Andy Warhol for the FBI
Googlism for Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol for the Taj Warhol
Andy Warhol for the Widow of Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol for Undergraduates
Andy Warhol for the Village Voice Classifieds, 1966
Andy Warhol for Familiar Quotations
Warhol, Andy for Indexers
from Definitions(1990)
The Story of Glass
One of Many Bars in Ford City, Pennsylvania
My Father
Family Portrait, 1933
Landscape with Unemployed, 1934
The Annual PPG Pensioners’ Picnic
After the Deindustrialization of America, My Father Enters Television Repair
The Social Impact of Corporate Disinvestment
Toward the Heaven of Full Employment
Now
Tolstoy in Heaven
Agnes McGurrin
The Jeweler
At a Jewish Cemetery in Pittsburgh
Pleasure
About My Son and Hands
Poem for Hamid
After the Movement
Extreme Unction
Old Shevchenko
An American Peace
Acknowledgments