Chaldea and I Dig Girls

CHALDEA and I DIG GIRLS is a collection of 25 poems and one short story by Nick Tosches.

About
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 the 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