{"id":718,"date":"2024-02-22T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T20:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/?post_type=product&#038;p=718"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:17:24","slug":"mosquito-operas","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/product\/mosquito-operas","title":{"rendered":"Mosquito Operas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by Philip Dacey<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t#tab_container_717 {\r\n\toverflow:hidden;\r\n\tdisplay:block;\r\n\twidth:100%;\r\n\tborder:0px solid #ddd;\r\n\tmargin-bottom:30px;\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_717 .tab-content{\r\n\tpadding:20px;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\tmargin-top: 0px;\r\n\tbackground-color:#fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tfont-size:16px !important;\r\n\tfont-family: Open Sans !important;\r\n\t\r\n\t\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n\t}\r\n#tab_container_717 .wpsm_nav-tabs {\r\n    border-bottom: 0px solid #ddd;\r\n}\r\n#tab_container_717 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a, #tab_container_717 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:hover, #tab_container_717 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li.active > a:focus {\r\n\tcolor: #000000 !important;\r\n\tcursor: default;\r\n\tbackground-color: #fffbe5 !important;\r\n\tborder: 1px solid #e6e2cc !important;\r\n}\r\n\r\n#tab_container_717 .wpsm_nav-tabs > li > a {\r\n    margin-right: 0px !important; 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In lines about his son, Dacey writes \"The first time ever bowling:\/he does a little dance--\/before technique, magic.\" These poems are that rare combination: technique infused with magic, magic infused with technique. Dacey hones and sharpens language until, again and again, the universe balances on a single line, a single image, often a single word. The ripple effect of the magic is without end.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014James Doyle, author of\u00a0<em>Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"Philip Dacey is smart, wise, and funny -- sometimes all at once. These \u201cshort poems\u201d come at us quickly, like whispered asides, or mulligan wisdom, and are gone before we know what hit us. Then, like jokes or aphorisms, they hang around in your head. And so, in these snaps and pops, Dacey is a George Carlin, a Ben Franklin, of poetry; his short poems catch you off guard, spin you a bit, and leave you thinking. Mosquito Operas is a delight, and a good reminder that often it is the little things that matter.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Louis McKee, author of\u00a0<em>Near Occasions of Sin<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"The body is said to experience orgasm\u2019s contractions six tenths of a second apart. The brain is a different animal. Analogous sensations in the minds of patrons of Mosquito Operas shall occur following interludes of, say, six seconds\u2014paroxysms not merely memorable, but many unforgettable. Moreover, seduced by the arrangement of those moments and new music in tune with it, here we're talking multiple climaxes.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Karl Elder, author of\u00a0<em>The Minimalist\u2019s How-to Handbook<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-848\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Philip-Dacey-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Dacey\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Philip Dacey<\/strong> is the author of ten previous books, including\u00a0<em>The New York Postcard Sonnets<\/em>\u00a0(Rain Mountain press, 2007) and\u00a0<em>Vertebrae Rosaries<\/em>\u00a0(Red Dragonfly Press, 2009) as well as whole collections of poems about Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Eakins. His honors include three Pushcart prizes, two NEA fellowships in creative writing, a Woodrow Wilson fellowship to Stanford, a Discovery award from the New York YM-YWHA\u2019s Poetry Center, and a Fulbright lectureship to Yugoslavia. Individual poems have won prizes from numerous periodicals, including\u00a0<em>Kansas Quarterly, Yankee, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Nebraska Review, Free Lunch,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0The Ledge.<\/em>\u00a0With David Jauss, he co-edited\u00a0<em>Strong Measures<\/em>\u00a0(Harper &amp; Row, 1986), an anthology of contemporary American poems in traditional forms.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_717_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><strong>Triolet for a Marriage<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nSnow fell deep on a bed<BR>\r\nFor years. Are snow-<BR>\r\nMen wed? And what made<BR>\r\nSnow fall? Deep on a bed<BR>\r\nThey lay in cold beauty. Did<BR>\r\nTime put flame to them? No:<BR>\r\nSnow fell deep on that bed,<BR>\r\nFor years are snow.<\/P>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>Juilliard Suite<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n1. Crescendo<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThe tiny<BR>\r\nKorean pianist<BR>\r\ngot bigger<BR>\r\nas she played.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n2. Semibreve<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThe cellist\u2019s toes<BR>\r\npeek out from under her gown,<BR>\r\nwhole notes ready to be used<BR>\r\nin an emergency.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n3. Janacek<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThe breasts of the pianist<BR>\r\nalmost touched the keys.<BR>\r\nThe sound of decolletage.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n4. Sonata<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nHow the music distorts<BR>\r\nthe face of the cellist!<BR>\r\nHow the sisters<BR>\r\nUgly and Beautiful<BR>\r\nlove each other!<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n5. Before the Concert<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nHigh-fives exchanged<BR>\r\nbetween two violinists.<BR>\r\nJuilliard basketball<BR>\r\ndisguised as Beethoven.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n6. String Quartet<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nFour cars at high speed<BR>\r\nenter an intersection<BR>\r\nfrom four directions<BR>\r\nand without slowing pass<BR>\r\nat the very center straight<BR>\r\ninto and through each other<BR>\r\nbefore emerging completely<BR>\r\nintact on the other side<BR>\r\nand speeding on.<\/P>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<P><STRONG>Three Ways of Looking at a Condom<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI was of three minds,<BR>\r\nLike a condom<BR>\r\nIn which there are three cocks.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nII<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nA man and a woman<BR>\r\nAre one.<BR>\r\nA man and a woman and a condom<BR>\r\nAre three.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nIII<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI do not know which to prefer,<BR>\r\nThe condom holding<BR>\r\nOr the condom giving way.<\/P>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n <script>\r\n\t\tjQuery(function () {\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('#myTab_717 a:first').tab('show')\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\tjQuery(function(){\r\n\t\t\tvar b=\"fadeIn\";\r\n\t\t\tvar c;\r\n\t\t\tvar a;\r\n\t\t\td(jQuery(\"#myTab_717 a\"),jQuery(\"#tab-content_717\"));function d(e,f,g){\r\n\t\t\t\te.click(function(i){\r\n\t\t\t\t\ti.preventDefault();\r\n\t\t\t\t\tjQuery(this).tab(\"show\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tvar h=jQuery(this).data(\"easein\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(c){c.removeClass(a);}\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(h){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+h);a=h;}\r\n\t\t\t\t\telse{if(g){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+g);a=g;}else{f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+b);a=b;}}c=f.find(\"div.active\");\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\r\n\t\tfunction do_resize(){\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar width=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).width();\r\n\t\t\tvar height=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).height();\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar toggleSize = true;\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('iframe').animate({\r\n\t\t\t    width: toggleSize ? width : 640,\r\n\t\t\t    height: toggleSize ? height : 360\r\n\t\t\t  }, 250);\r\n\r\n\t\t\t  toggleSize = !toggleSize;\r\n\t\t}\r\n\r\n\r\n\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Philip Dacey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":719,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[28],"product_tag":[61],"class_list":{"0":"post-718","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","7":"product_tag-philip-dacey","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}