The Dream Police
The Dream Police: Selected Poems, 1969-1993 was first published in 1996 and includes poetry and very short prose fiction selections from earlier publications (Tiger Beat, Idols, The Tenderness of Wolves, The Missing Men, He Cried, and From Marines and Other Portraits.)
A number of poems are odes to the speaker's objects of admiration that range from purely affectionate to bittersweet. A few others read as cautionary examinations of the impact of fame, an odd one about somebody's mother being an alcoholic piano teacher or somebody's grandmother, and more on-brand gruesome murders and sexual violence.
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