Thresherphobe

Name: Thresherphobe
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ISBN: 9780226038704

ISBN-10: 022603870X

ISBN-13: 9780226038704

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mark Halliday

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In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life’s emotional mysteries—both dire and hilarious—from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetual frustration of our cravings for ego-triumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit. Animated by belief in the possible truths to be reached in interpersonal speech, Halliday’s voice-driven poetry wants to find insight—or at least a stay against confusion—throughpersonality without being trappedinpersonality. History will leave much of what we are on the threshing floor, Halliday notes, but…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.09" long x 0.22" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Lois in the Sunny Tree


Quite Frankly


Sweet and Dandy


Return to Elmgrove


Vacation Day in 1983


There We Were


Historic Shirt


Thanks to Acker Bilk


Frankfort Laundromat


240 Sneakers


Ted's Elegiac Work


Bev and Broadway


Spunktilio Awaits the Biographer


Visionary Age 79


Yvette Vickers


After You Die


Classic Blunder


Just In Time


Ferguson High


Sorority Softball


Double Reverse


Wide Receiver


La Marquise de Gloire


Flang Flight


Ducks Not in Row


Pathos of the Momentary Smile


Huge Party


Unconversation


Before Dawn


Wheeling


Pathos of the Detective


Threshed Out


Tossed


Assisted Living


Livin' in the World


Lingo Bistro


New New Poetics


Thanks for Your Book


Glancers


Talented Youth


Mildewed Anthologies


Reader Depressed


His Alley Metaphor


The One for Her