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Don Share's latest collection, "Squandermania", is a book of poems that are slightly death-haunted and studded with references to marriage and fatherhood, geology and biology.
List of contents
- I.
- Marooned
- Meaning
- Landmarks
- Ruby
- Donny Doodle Furens
- The Mystery Letter
- The Seventy Interpreters
- Food for Thought
- I morti
- II.
- Rest
- The Counterfeiters
- "This building is alarmed" (anger language)
- At Home
- Medea in Reverse
- Translated from the Potato Yiddish
- Ovum
- Father Cannot Yell
- III.
- Failure to Thrive
- Digression of Air
- Fiery Crash or Ferry Crash?
- Explicit
- The Sandpaper Ministry
- Buddy Holly Gold
- "An old image in arras hangings"
- Maddy's New Rhyme
- I Will Go Out For More
- Lustre
- Bottle in the Smoke
- Sweet Water, Best Bread
- Men Pretending to Sleep
- IV.
- To Father
- Intelligent Design
- Squandermania, or: Falling asleep over
- Delmore Schwartz
- Honi soit .?.?.
- Bookish Men
- A Drop in the Bucket
- Ontogeny
- Murder
- The Comedy of Clocks
- The Dead Language
- On Original Intent
About the author
Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry (Chicago). Previously, he was Curator of Poetry at Harvard University, where he taught and was Poetry Editor of Harvard Review; he has been an editor at Partisan Review and Literary Imagination. His book of poems, Union, was a finalist for the Boston Globe/PEN-New England Winship Award for outstanding book; his other books are Seneca in English (Penguin Classics); I Have Lots of Heart: Selected Poems of Miguel Hernández (Bloodaxe), which received a Times Literary Supplement/Society of Authors Translation Prize; The Traumatophile (Scantily Clad Press), and a critical edition of Basil Bunting forthcoming from Faber and Faber. He is from Memphis.
