| Description |
1 online resource (88 pages) |
| Series |
Phoenix poets |
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Phoenix poets.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Lois in the Sunny Tree; Quite Frankly; Sweet and Dandy; Return to Elmgrove; Vacation Day in 1983; There We Were; Historic Shirt; Thanks to Acker Bilk; Frankfort Laundromat; 240 Sneakers; Ted's Elegiac Work; Bev and Broadway; Spunktilio Awaits the Biographer; Visionary Age; Yvette Vickers; After You Die; Classic Blunder; Just In Time; Ferguson High; Sorority Softball; Double Reverse; Wide Receiver; La Marquise de Gloire; Flang Flight; Ducks Not in Row; Pathos of the Momentary Smile; Huge Party; Unconversation; Before Dawn; Wheeling; Pathos of the Detective |
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Threshed OutTossed; Assisted Living; Livin' in the World; Lingo Bistro; New New Poetics; Thanks for Your Book; Glancers; Talented Youth; Mildewed Anthologies; Reader Depressed; His Alley Metaphor; The One for Her |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226038841 |
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022603884X |
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