Losers (Wisconsin Poetry Series) - Softcover

Pope, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299359247 ISBN 13: 9780299359249

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2026

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Class consciousness and contradictions percolate throughout Colin Pope’s third collection. Highly personal, these poems acknowledge the damage wrought on underprivileged populations while celebrating a working-class background. Dishwasher, delivery guy, ne’er-do-well, paper boy―the characters who populate this volume are caught within societally imposed definitions; infused with dignity, humanity, and compassion, Losers thumbs its nose at other folks’ labels. A celebration of postindustrial, rural America, this book is a paean to anyone thought undesirable and highlights the advantages (and disadvantages) imposed by geography, beauty, status, wealth, and opportunity.

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Colin Pope is the author of Prayer Book for the New Heretic and Why I Didn’t Go to Your Funeral. The recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes, he is the assistant director of creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory boards of the literary journals RHINO and TriQuarterly. He is a native Adirondacker living in Chicago.

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“the gallery of possibilities drift past: blue-haired lady 

walking a teacup poodle, husband and wife 
actively not holding hands, man with dreads
pushing a stroller filled with cans, each of us

trying to get back to who we were before today,
the people who believed, spacious and airy inside.”

―Excerpt from “A Life Sentence”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0299359247
• ISBN 13: 9780299359249
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90
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