Chaldea and I Dig Girls

CHALDEA and I DIG GIRLS
Author(s)	Nick Tosches
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Poetry
Publisher	CUZ Editions (USA)
Publication date	1999 (USA)
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	35 pp (hardback first edition)
ISBN	096632850

CHALDEA and I DIG GIRLS is a collection of 25 poems and one short story by Nick Tosches. Selections were previously published in such places as Open City, Contents, Lowest Common Denominator, GQ, Long Shot and Smokes Like a Fish. The cover features an engraving of Mithraic Kronos from AD 190. The first edition was limited to 537 copies, 26 were numbered A-Z, and 11 were signed by the author.

Chaldea refers to portion of Babylon that included the southern Tigris and Euphrates area.

Contents

CHALDEA

1. What the Coptic Guy Said
2. May the Gods Without Names Redeem Me
3. Dante in Ravenna
4. I with a Knife to the Throat of Cybele
5. From the Dreambook of Artemidorus
6. A Feast for the Eyes
7. Ptolemy II
8. My Kind of Loving
9. Old Nick's Song of Songs
10. The Moist and the Dry
11. If I were Robert Stack
12. What I, as Robert Stack, Would Eat
13. What Bob Stack Et
14. Invocation
15. All My Gods Have Always Been Broads
16. Imperium
17. Unwilled Prayer of Evil to the Demon of the Meadow
18. Hymn to Paean, Physician to the Gods
19. Erebos
20. Erinys
21. In the Hospital
22. Ophis Ovum Opium Olé
23. Contrapasso
24. Favaglione 9/16/96
25. All of Gust and Sigh

I DIG GIRLS

1. I Dig Girls

See also

• Blue Eyes And Exit Wounds, a spoken word collaboration with Hubert Selby, Jr. containing a few Chaldea poems.
• fuckthelivingfuckthedead, a live recording of a poetry reading by Tosches which includes many of the poems in this collection
• For the taking: Vol. I from CHALDEA, an album featuring spoken word performances by Tosches with electronic soundscapes.

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