Pleasure Principle

JON LOOMIS S Vanitas Motel won the inaugural FIELD Poetry Prize, and his The Pleasure Principle was also published by Oberlin College Press. The author of the Frank Coffin mystery series, he teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

• Romance: A Parable • The Pleasure Principle • Sin • You Blow Out the Candles • Longing • Epithalamial • Addictions • Happiness • Conversion • Balthus Returns • Russian Novel • Millennial • Skinnydipping, Late Summer • After the Rapture • On the First Tee with Charles Wright • Uncle Chester’s Second Wife • Tourists • Prayer at Thirty Below • Race Point Vanitas • Tall Ships • In the Old City • Dark City • Desiccated Mouse Found on Screen Porch • Insomnia Dentata • Ovid in Florida • Fire Ants • Nursing Home • 1882: The Afterlife • In Circe’s Garden • Letter from the Cardiac Unit • The Past • Uncle • Pneumonia, 1969 • Camping Trip • This Poet’s Life: A Memoir • Interiors • Regret • Damage • Peace • Mis en Abime • In the Mirror It Is Sunday • Misfit Farm • November • Sex • Ars Poetica • Deer Hit • Notes • Acknowledgments