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Thresherphobe (Phoenix Poets) - Softcover

Halliday, Mark

 
9780226038704: Thresherphobe (Phoenix Poets)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022603870X ISBN 13: 9780226038704
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2013

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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 being trapped in personality. History will leave much of what we are on the threshing floor, Halliday notes, but in the meantime we do what we can; let posterity (if any!) say we rambled truly.

Forward Prizes for Poetry: Highly Commended for 'Classic Blunder' and 'Lois in the Sunny Tree'

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Halliday is Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio University. His previous books include Selfwolf and Jab, both published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of a critical study of Wallace Stevens and many essays on contemporary poets.

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Thresherphobe

By MARK HALLIDAY

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Copyright © 2013 The University of Chicago
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-226-03870-4

Contents

Acknowledgments............................................................ix
Lois in the Sunny Tree.....................................................3
Quite Frankly..............................................................4
Sweet and Dandy............................................................5
Return to Elmgrove.........................................................6
Vacation Day in 1983.......................................................7
There We Were..............................................................9
Historic Shirt.............................................................11
Thanks to Acker Bilk.......................................................12
Frankfort Laundromat.......................................................13
240 Sneakers...............................................................15
Ted's Elegiac Work.........................................................17
Bev and Broadway...........................................................19
Spunktilio Awaits the Biographer...........................................20
Visionary Age 79...........................................................22
Yvette Vickers.............................................................23
After You Die..............................................................24
Classic Blunder............................................................28
Just In Time...............................................................29
Ferguson High..............................................................33
Sorority Softball..........................................................35
Double Reverse.............................................................36
Wide Receiver..............................................................38
La Marquise de Gloire......................................................39
Flang Flight...............................................................40
Ducks Not in Row...........................................................42
Pathos of the Momentary Smile..............................................43
Huge Party.................................................................47
Unconversation.............................................................49
Before Dawn................................................................52
Wheeling...................................................................53
Pathos of the Detective....................................................56
Threshed Out...............................................................57
Tossed.....................................................................58
Assisted Living............................................................62
Livin' in the World........................................................63
Lingo Bistro...............................................................69
New New Poetics............................................................71
Thanks for Your Book.......................................................73
Glancers...................................................................75
Talented Youth.............................................................76
Mildewed Anthologies.......................................................78
Reader Depressed...........................................................79
His Alley Metaphor.........................................................81
The One for Her............................................................82

Excerpt

CHAPTER 1

    LOIS IN THE SUNNY TREE


    When in August 1920 I smiled for the camera
    from my perch on the limb of a sun-spangled tree,
    says Lois, long dead now but humorously seven years old then,
    with a giant ribbon in my hair, the sorrow of living in time
    was only very tiny and remote in some far corner of my mind

    and for me to know then, as I smiled for that camera
    in Michigan in the summer of 1920
    that you would peer thoughtfully and admiringly
    into my happy photographed eyes eighty-some years later
    would have been good for me only in a very tiny and remote way.


    QUITE FRANKLY


    They got old, they got old and died. But first—
    okay but first they composed plangent depictions
    of how much they lost and how much cared about losing.
    Meantime their hair got thin and more thin
    as their shoulders went slumpy. Okay but

    not before the photo albums got arranged by them,
    arranged with a niftiness, not just two or three
    but eighteen photo albums, yes eighteen eventually,
    eighteen albums proving the beauty of them (and not someone else),
    them and their relations and friends, incontrovertible

    playing croquet in that Bloomington yard,
    floating on those comic inflatables at Dow Lake,
    giggling at the Dairy Queen, waltzing at the wedding,
    building a Lego palace on the porch,
    holding the baby beside the rental truck,
    leaning on the Hemingway statue at Pamplona,
    discussing the eternity of art in that Sardinian restaurant.

    Yes! And so, quite frankly—at the end of the day—
    they got old and died okay sure but quite frankly
    how much does that matter in view of
    the eighteen photo albums, big ones
    thirteen inches by twelve inches each
    full of such undeniable beauty?


    SWEET AND DANDY


    Music poured from the big brown house

    It was sweet and dandy, sweet and...

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022603870X
ISBN 13 
9780226038704
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
93
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