American melancholy : poems

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  • Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
    Contributor:

    Smith, Cheryl

    Summary:

    Covering subjects big and small, this poetry collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest.

    Contents:
    • I: The coming storm
    • In hemp-woven hammocks reading the Nation
    • Exsanguination
    • Little Albert, 1920
    • Harlow's monkeys
    • Obedience : 1962
    • Loney
    • The coming storm
    • Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926
    • II: The first room
    • The first room
    • Sinkholes
    • That other
    • The mercy
    • The blessing
    • This is not a poem
    • Apocalypso
    • III: American melancholy
    • To Marlon Brando in Hell
    • Too young to marry but not too young to die
    • Doctor help me
    • Old America has come home to die
    • Jubilate : an homage in catterel verse
    • Kite poem
    • American sign language
    • Hometown waiting for you
    • IV: "This is the time ... "
    • Hatefugue
    • A dream of stopped-up drains
    • Bloodline, elegy
    • Harvesting skin
    • "This is the time for which we have been waiting"
    • The tunnel
    • Palliative.
    Genre: Poetry
    Original Publisher: [New York] , HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781799948629

    ,

    1799948625

    ,

    9781799948636

    ,

    1799948633

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Smith, Cheryl

Abstract

Covering subjects big and small, this poetry collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest.

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Poetry
Publisher (Source)

[New York]

HarperCollins

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