Thresherphobe
Thresherphobe

Author: Mark Halliday

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-05-15

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 022603884X

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In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life’s emotional mysteries—both dire and hilarious—from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetual frustration of our cravings for ego-triumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit. Animated by belief in the possible truths to be reached in interpersonal speech, Halliday’s voice-driven poetry wants to find insight—or at least a stay against confusion—through personality without being trapped in personality. History will leave much of what we are on the threshing floor, Halliday notes, but in the meantime we do what we can; let posterity (if any!) say we rambled truly. Forward Prizes for Poetry: Highly Commended for 'Classic Blunder' and 'Lois in the Sunny Tree'

Heart's Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec's Images Responding to Emily Dickinson
Heart's Many Doors: American Poets Respond to Metka Krašovec's Images Responding to Emily Dickinson

Author: Richard Jackson

Publisher: Wings Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1609405374

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Internationally acclaimed Slovian artist Metka Krašovek created a suite of drawings inspired by the poems of Emily Dickinson. Editor Richard Jackson began gathering poems created in response to the drawings — fascinating and insightful examples of double ekphrasis. The Heart's Many Doors is a rich, cross-genre combination of writing and art that functions as a multi-faceted commentary on Dickinson, art and the creative process. 41 American poets contributed poems written in response to the artwork.

Best American Poetry 2016
Best American Poetry 2016

Author: David Lehman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 150112756X

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Collects poems chosen by editor Edward Hirsch as the best of 2016, featuring poets such as Rick Barot, Emily Fragos, Philip Levine, and Adrienne Su.

Poetry Los Angeles
Poetry Los Angeles

Author: Laurence Goldstein

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2014-03-12

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0472120417

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Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein presents original commentary on six decades of poets who have contributed to the iconography and poetics of Los Angeles literature, including Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dorothy Barresi, Victoria Chang, Wanda Coleman, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, James Harms, Robert Hass, Eloise Klein Healy, Garrett Hongo, Suzanne Lummis, Paul Monette, Harryette Mullen, Carol Muske-Dukes, Frederick Seidel, Gary Soto, Timothy Steele, Diane Wakoski, Derek Walcott, and Charles Harper Webb. Forty poems are reproduced in their entirety. One chapter is devoted to Charles Bukowski, the celebrity face of the city’s poetry. Other chapters discuss the ways that poets explore “Interiors” and “Exteriors” throughout the cityscape. Goldstein also provides ample connections to the novels, films, art, and politics of Southern California. In clear prose, Poetry Los Angeles examines the strategies by which poets make significant places meaningful and memorable to readers of every region of the U.S. and elsewhere.

Keep this Forever
Keep this Forever

Author: Mark Halliday

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13:

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"Halliday's is an entire poetics of the available-a direct, often quietly comic voice capable of piercing emotional climaxes or bracingly tart cynicism."-Ken Tucker, "The New York Times Book Review" There are many voices within these poems, each distinct and accessible, all of them subversive and disarmingly personal. This nimble poet deftly lures readers to his penetrating observations by not being afraid to open his own emotional veins; he often leads the way with a torch lit by his own pain. Yet his beguiling humor paradoxically occupies the same space as his deepest grief, bringing honest perspective and insight to the most sorrowful circumstance. Often, his self effacement can be subterfuge; in a moment his razor wit can catch you off guard and expose a veiled truth emanating from an almost tribal wisdom. These are smart, clear poems that echo with simplicity and honesty, resonating well beyond the personal, for Halliday's unpretentious droll voice is an instrument finely tuned to invoke a more thoughtful comprehension of the commonality of human experience. Mark Halliday has published four books of poetry. He has won the Juniper Prize and was selected for the National Poetry Series. He is also the author of two books of literary criticism. Halliday has a PhD in English from Brandeis University, and currently teaches at Ohio University.

PLACES & NAMES
PLACES & NAMES

Author: Carl Boon

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781950124046

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The poems in Carl Boon's debut collection, PLACES & NAMES, coalesce two kinds of history-the factual and the imagined-to produce a kind of intimacy that is greater than either fact or imagination. It is this sense of intimacy that brings the poems to life. We encounter real places sometimes-places we see on maps and highway signs-but also places that exist only in the imagination-mine or yours. We encounter names that are both recognizable and almost-or barely-remembered at all: Robert E. Lee next to one of a thousand men named Jackson who went to fight in Vietnam; Jorge Luis Borges next to an unknown boy from Clarita, Oklahoma, who himself would become a poet someday; Rocky Marciano in the basement shadows as a failed middleweight hammering the heavy bag in Northeast Ohio, hungry for more than beans or soup. And suddenly it becomes clear how intimately connected in this collection these places and names are as we range from Saigon to northern Iraq; Athens, Ohio, to Libya; Ankara to Pittsburgh; and a strange, sleepy place called Pomegranate Town where someone's infant dozes in the back of a car on a seaside highway. The people who inhabit these places seem, in a sense, to be them, inseparable from their geographies and histories, often unable to escape, bound by memory, nostalgia, and tradition.

The Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet Ibis

Author: Susan Hahn

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2007-03-21

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 0810151847

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A collection of poems by Susan Hahn that use the image of the ibis to explore a wide range of topics, including slavery, ancient Egypt, individuality, and courage.

Contemplative Man
Contemplative Man

Author: Brock Guthrie

Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781937420673

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Poetry. You could be sitting on a good one, a two-to-eight word answer that says exactly how important Guthrie's CONTEMPLATIVE MAN is. Something concise. Something direct. Something that proves a summary actually can say something true about something else. You think, damn, this sounds smug, and you think maybe these poems are, too. This is the part where you buy the book and see for yourself.