Catastrophic Bliss

Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections within a fragmented world. These poems move from the tumultuous to the sublime.

List of contents

Catastrophic Bliss
Reticence
The Walk
Making Stars with Jacob Lawrence
This Train Seeks Dust
Linens Near a Ghost Town
Habits
Jaguaripe
Removing Atmosphere: A Seascape
The Gold Room
Playing Chess on the A
Aubade: Blue Hydrangeas
Peaches
?ba's Stew
The Sermon
Communion
Birthday Fish
The Lion
Friday Night Sighting
Graze for the Captain
Three
The Saved
Blackberries
Robiezene's Circle
The Telling
The Raft with Machado de Assis
Chemotherapy Moon
What the Tide Leaves
Wine on King Street
Madrugada
Mucambo
Rocket
Grenades
Two Baianas Beckon Sorrow
Felipe Loves Marilyn
River Tracks
Boa Morte
Redux
The Resolved
Exú
Retonados
Platoon
Rhythm in the Republic: Mr. President
Samba
Billy Eckstine's Felicidade: Rio de Janeiro, 1963
Fado: Facing the Salon
Fado: Sunset
Fado: After the Ballet
Disiz La Peste: An Interview
Insha'Allah
Undertones
Weekend
The Pulse
Crabs Fixate on Red
Notes
Acknowledgments
Author Biography
The Griot-Stadler Prize for Poetry

About the author

By Myronn Hardy

Product details

• Authors: Myronn Hardy
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.2012
• EAN: 9781611484939
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-493-9
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Series: The Griot Project Book Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama