| Description |
1 online resource |
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Phoenix poets |
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Phoenix poets.
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| Contents |
A is for Allegory -- See Saw -- After the Wall -- Gag -- Jacopone: The Scissors -- Cobbler's Children -- Xenia: Stranger/Guest -- Chai: 1924-2000 -- Tacitus: City of Unseens -- Catullus VIII -- One-Page Novel -- Divorce and Mr. Circe -- Marriage: Six Primers -- Or What You Will -- Zero-Account -- Convolvulus, a Lullaby -- Redd-Pound Slamma -- A Lie-Awake Dirge -- Revenger Sonnet -- Jacopone: House -- Y -- Traffic of Creations -- The Loop: JFK Jr. -- Jacopone: On the Cobbles -- Hocus Pocus |
| Summary |
"The Sleep of Reason plunges us into a macabre world where good impulses bring on evil consequences--a world not unlike our own. In David Gewanter's alternately delightful and startling poems, allegory comes alive and stalks a bookstore's musty aisles, comedians eviscerate their families for a laugh, lovers love each other for withholding affection, and theaters collapse on audiences hungry for spectacle. Amidst such surreal subjects, Gewanter's delicate musicality and keen sense of humor sparkle; his inquisition regarding a fallen world becomes a dark comedy of errors haunted by the most unexpected characters--from JFK Jr. to Tacitus, Redd Foxx to General Motors, Mariah Carey to 100 rabbits with herpes. An offbeat satire for an off-kilter age, "The Sleep of Reason offers an incisive guide to moral behavior in an immoral world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80) |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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Poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poems.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226289755 |
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0226289753 |
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