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Regular Haunts - New and Previous Poems

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor Gerald Costanzo is the author of eight collections of poems, including Badlands, In the Aviary, Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard, and Great Disguise, and editor of six anthologies of poetry. He is the recipient of the Devins Award for Poetry and two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, and two Pushcart Prizes. A graduate of Harvard University and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, he lives in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and Nehalem, Oregon. Klappentext Gerald Costanzo is the author of eight collections of poems! including Badlands! In the Aviary! Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard! and Great Disguise! and editor of six anthologies of poetry. He is the recipient of the Devins Award for Poetry and two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts! as well as fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts! the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines! and two Pushcart Prizes. A graduate of Harvard University and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University! he lives in Mt. Lebanon! Pennsylvania! and Nehalem! Oregon. Zusammenfassung Gerald Costanzo! long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire! focuses specifically on American themes that! though presented as parables! fables! jokes! and put-ons! remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory! popular! consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments     Introduction by Ted Kooser     New Poems I. American RiverArabesques and Bottle Blondes     Provincetown     American River     Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell     Deathgrass at the Wheeler Summerfest     Tinnitus     Memory and Loss     Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo     The Lives They Lead     Stories         Minnie’s Death    II. Regular HauntsThe Big Heat     Blood on the Moon     Stairway to an Empty Room     A Graveyard to Let     Downtown     The Longest Second     The Out Is Death     Blood of Poets     City of Whispering Stone     Judge Me Not     The Gentle Hangman     The Winter People     Invitation to Violence     Deadline at Dawn     Havana Run     Spend Game    Previous Poems I. The Sacred Cows of Los AngelesThe Sacred Cows of Los Angeles     Snake         “What Youngstown Needs Is Good Representation”      Introduction of the Shopping Cart     Houdini Disappearing in Philadelphia     For Four Newsmen Murdered in Saigon     Newlywed     Badlands     The Resurrection of Lake Erie     Dinosaurs of the Hollywood Delta    II. Living the Good Life on the San Andreas FaultLiving the Good Life on the San Andreas Fault     The Problems, the Models     The Riot of Nickel Beer Night     Manhattan as a Latin American Capital     In the Aviary     Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard    III. At Irony’s PicnicThe Rise of the Sunday School Movement     Braille         Grasshoppers     Flagpole Sitter     Seeing My Name in TV Guide     Hunger     A Tax Auditor for the IRS Dreams     At Irony’s Picnic    IV. Bournehurst-on-the-CanalLandscape with Unemployed Jockeys     The Bigamist     Everything You Own     Stargazers     Five Small Songs of America in 2076     Carl Yastrzemski     Vigilantes     The Man Who Invented Las Vegas     When Guy Lombardo Died     In the Blood     Bournehurst-on-the-Canal    V. Washington ParkNear Lacombe     Building     My Kindergarten Girlfriend     Pastoral     The Old Neighborhood     Potatoes     Toward San Francisco     Jungles     Washington Park    VI. What’s Wrong with the Moon?What’s Wrong with the Moon?     VII. Excavating the Ruins of Miami BeachReport from the Past     The Story     Excavating the Ruins of Miami Beach     The Meeting    ...

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Autori Gerald Costanzo
Editore University of Nebraska Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 31.03.2018
 
EAN 9781496205865
ISBN 978-1-4962-0586-5
Pagine 277
Serie Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
Categoria Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica

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