Tiresias

Los Angeles poet and editor LELAND HICKMAN (1934-1991) was the author of two collections of poetry: Great Slave Lake Suite (1980), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Lee Sr. Falls to the Floor (1991). His poetry also appeared in The Hudson Review, Bachy, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Little Caesar, Invisible City, Box Car, and the anthology The Streets Inside: Ten Los Angeles Poets. He was the editor of the poetry journal Temblor, which ran for 10 issues during the 1980s. DENNIS PHILLIP'S many books of poetry include Credence, Study for the Ideal City, and Sand. BILL MOHR'S Backlit Renaissance: Los Angeles Poets During the Cold War is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in 2010.

• Editor's Note and Acknowledgments • Preface – Dennis Phillips • EARLY POEMS • Call for a New Creation • Anaximander • Charles, viewed in the silver • Work On What Has Been Spoiled • Further Work On What Has Been Spoiled • Lee Sr Falls to the Floor • UNPUBLISHED EARLY POEMS • The Virgo Poems • Message Poems • rhapsody Macaulay not historian his story • EARLY TIRESIAS • Tiresias I:1 • Tiresias I:2 • Tiresias I:3 • Tiresias I:4 • Tiresias I:5 • Tiresias I:6 • Tiresias I:7 • Tiresias I:8A • Tiresias I:8B • Tiresias I:9A • TIRESIAS I:9B: Great Slave Lake Suite • Hay River, September 1973 • Paint Child at Pain at Shock at • Fort Providence on the Mackenzie River • You hear? Sonny hush. • Yellowknife Bay • Coda • ELEMENTS • Hay River • The Hidden • O Blue Temple • Picasso Deathday Night • Fort Providence • Aphroditos Phalanthos • Aphroditos Absconditus • Sothsegger Scry • Blackwillow Darybreak • Yellowknife Bay • UNPUBLISHED TIRESIAS • for Gene Flower: magic Tiresias song • "my doubletongues flame in my all-night extremity sucker" • LATE POEMS • Annotation For That Which Follows • He Who Delights in Signs • Afterword – Bill Mohr • About the Author

"Hickman’s testament is visceral, haunting, and generously spread."—Robert Peters, Small Press Review