Sufficiency of the Actual
Series: Illinois Poetry Series; 69;
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Product details:
- Edition number New
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 26 November 2008
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252033094
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages104 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 286 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of “history’s bicep.”
Musical and refreshingly unaffected, Stein’s poems yoke the domains of high and low art. His poems address subjects by turns surprising, edgy, and humorous. They offer musings on the Slinky and the atomic bomb, elegies for a miscarried pregnancy and the late physicist Edward Teller, reflections on night-shift factory work and President Eisenhower’s golf caddy, and meditations on the politics of post-colonialism and a youthful antiwar streaking incident. Against this vivid backdrop parades a motley cast of American characters seeking wiry balance in a fragile world.
MoreTable of Contents:
One
Autumnal---- 3
Sufficiency of the Actual -- 5
On Being a Nielsen Family---- 7
(My) History of Parsley---- 8
September Falls Is No River's---- 10
News Crawl---- 11
Mars' Karma---- 12
Lives of the Painters---- 14
Middle-aged Adam's and Eve's Bedside Tables---- 16
Ike's Caddy---- 18
Talk Radio---- 23
Blue Tuesday---- 24
In Human Hands---- 26
Two
To Balance---- 31
Postcard to Henry James---- 33
Capitalism---- 34
A Day's Work---- 36
Song of the Night Shift Foreman---- 38
On Thinking of the Second Time They Sholved Up Mr. Lincoln---- 40
Pre-Bowdlerized Version of Poem for a Fourth-Grade Illinois History Text---- 43
CR5115STD Responds to the National Consumer Survey---- 45
Post-Feminist Machismo---- 47
Poet's Genie---- 48
Parakeet and Dark Star---- 49
Mowing the Lawn---- 50
Three
Appetites Early and Other---- 53
Aesthetics of Desire---- 55
Natural Selection---- 58
Religion---- 60
Upon the Porch Swing's Time Machine---- 61
To My Hair---- 63
Lovesong Ending with (------ )---- 65
At the Mountain Man Rendezvous in Fairplay, Colorado---- 67
Inverse Aviary in which Birds Talk---- 69
On Reading Prince Valiant in the Sunday Comics---- 71
Slippery Slope---- 73
Colonialism ---- 74
Parable of the American Stag Party---- 76
Arts of Joy---- 78
Youthful Indiscretions---- 79
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