Book of Daniel, The: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Smith, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822965968 ISBN 13: 9780822965961

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

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A tour de force, Aaron Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, The Book of Daniel, resists the easy satisfactions of Beauty while managing the contemporary entanglements of art, sex, and grief. Part pop-thriller, part queer rage, and part mourning, these poems depict not only the complications of representation in the age of social media but a critique of identity. Taking on subjects as diverse as the literary canon, his mother’s incurable cancer diagnosis, gay bashing, celebrity gossip, bigotry, violence on TV, and Alexander McQueen’s suicide, Smith proves that the confessional lyric is not dead. In tangents as wild as they are reigned, with his characteristic blend of directness, vulnerability and humor, these poems take on the world as it is, a world we love even as it resists all intimacy.

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Aaron Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Primer, Appetite, and Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Ploughshares and Best American Poetry. A three-time finalist

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I Need My O’Hara Frank
 
not Maureen,
my Lucille
 
Clifton not Ball.
And my Audre,
 
always, to be Lorde.
I need Sharons:
 
Tate and Olds,
but mostly Olds,
 
and never, ever
the Rose of.
 
Denise Duhamel,
not Richards.
 
Prince, not
Harry or William.
 
Etheridge? Melissa
in my twenties
 
and Knight
in my always.
 
Does anyone have
a poem to Cher?
 
My Brad should
be Pitt. My Daniel
 
Craig. My Hardy
Thomas and Tom.

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822965968
• ISBN 13: 9780822965961
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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