Catastrophic Bliss

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Catastrophic Bliss contemplates the longing to understand connections and disconnections within a world ever more fragmented yet interdependent. With allusions to Dante, Stevie Wonder, Fernando Pessoa, Persephone and Marianne Moore, these poems move from the tumultuous to the sublime: a pit bull killing an invading thief, two people on a New York City subway playing chess, Billy Eckstine recording in Rio de Janeiro, to an imagined Barack Obama writing poems to his father. Myronn Hardy’s third collection comprises war, place, love, and history all yearning to be reconciled.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-12-27
Mått152 x 228 x 8 mm
Vikt163 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGriot Project Book Series
Antal sidor88
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781611484939

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Catastrophic BlissReticenceThe WalkMaking Stars with Jacob LawrenceThis Train Seeks DustLinens Near a Ghost TownHabitsJaguaripeRemoving Atmosphere: A SeascapeThe Gold RoomPlaying Chess on the AAubade: Blue HydrangeasPeaches?ba’s StewThe SermonCommunionBirthday FishThe LionFriday Night SightingGraze for the CaptainThreeThe SavedBlackberriesRobiezene’s CircleThe TellingThe Raft with Machado de AssisChemotherapy MoonWhat the Tide LeavesWine on King StreetMadrugadaMucamboRocketGrenadesTwo Baianas Beckon SorrowFelipe Loves MarilynRiver TracksBoa MorteReduxThe ResolvedExúRetonadosPlatoonRhythm in the Republic: Mr. PresidentSambaBilly Eckstine’s Felicidade: Rio de Janeiro, 1963Fado: Facing the SalonFado: SunsetFado: After the BalletDisiz La Peste: An InterviewInsha’AllahUndertonesWeekendThe PulseCrabs Fixate on RedNotesAcknowledgmentsAuthor BiographyThe Griot-Stadler Prize for Poetry

“The only medicine is the voice,” Myronn Hardy tells us in his vivid and eloquent new collection of poems, Catastrophic Bliss, and what he tries to mend by speaking are the fractured cultures and landscapes that haunt contemporary consciousness. Hardy’s “voice” sings with fresh and arresting observations—“stingrays with pale/ undersides like hands”—and through them he explores the fragile co-existence of man and nature—the bliss of it and the catastrophe.