| Description |
1 online resource (93 pages) |
| Series |
Akron series in poetry.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Two Pastorals -- The automatic garage-door opener -- To Shop-Vac the sidestreet -- The Poughkeepsiad -- Tableaux poughkeepsiens -- I lived in one place -- Asbestos in carpet glue ... -- A pole saw can reach far enough ... -- Cusp of July and August: -- Thin ribbons of cloud and half a ruinous moon -- Broken glass in the shape of -- The undercity rivers beneath cast -- Does it help that the evening no -- Crow-scatter engraves evening, wings beating -- In a geography of service drives and sumac |
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Deer cross against the lightsAn inquiry into more forlorn subjects ... -- The provisional, the mostly blank ... -- The disheartened public -- The quiet streets of meth -- Can new tedium distract one -- Bare-branched maples, brush -- Not one, but dozens ... -- To build a life from happy accidents -- Slice of hillside -- We shoot everything you want to -- Still and slate-dark by four-thirty -- I slept on a varnished ... -- To be freed from the burden -- The house shudders in wind -- Milkweed and broken sink, -- Only the immeasurable |
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Poor little Poughkeepsie, What are the pitfalls ... -- The quivering powerlines could be ... -- I'm trying to whittle this skyline ... -- The view from basement -- Seed-flecked snow -- It's cinematic, the blank billboard ... -- The iciest particulars: I was ... -- A parking -- As blackened snow retreats ... -- The perilous optic, 3 AM ... -- O springtime foliage! -- The elegance of an only focus, a trance -- Children wire stuffed -- Amid the last sentences of rusting -- The greatest poverty is not to live -- The absent tenant's electricity .. |
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Hooker Avenue Serenade Recessive Variations -- For the Poughkeepsie Dead -- Two Pastorals (II) -- White steeple, gold -- Under over -- L'Envoi -- Notes |
| Summary |
Winner of the 2010 Akron Poetry Prize, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie is a tender anti-epic, a grunge-tinged love song to America?s benighted post-industrial heartland. Harmon?s Poughkeepsie shimmers just beyond the borders of banal recognition. If you're not part of the problem, / you're part of the lengthening / tragedy, Harmon writes in an introductory pastoral, seeking out the stray / detours and workarounds of the secret / city inside the more obvious one? on the outskirts of the absurd / attention to the material life. Poughkeepsie is that city of the heart where no one can look at anyone else alone, where the noise of beauty is a cop?s bullet polishing off a traffic-struck doe, where five dollars takes you anywhere in this town / except out of it |
| Analysis |
Multi-User |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry
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| SUBJECT |
Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) -- Poetry
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010047974 |
| ISBN |
9781937378608 |
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1937378608 |
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9781937378615 |
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1937378616 |
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