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Gerald Costanzo
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 |
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> Poesia lirica, drammatica
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