Dismantling the Hills

Name: Dismantling the Hills
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ISBN: 9780822960072

ISBN-10: 0822960079

ISBN-13: 9780822960072

Edition: 2008

Authors: Michael McGriff

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WINNER OF THE 2007 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE Dismantling the Hillsis a testament to working-class, rural American life. In a world of machinists, loggers, mill workers, and hairdressers, the poems collected here bear witness to a landscape, an industry, and a people teetering on the edge of ruin. From tightly constructed narratives to expansive and surreal meditations, the various styles in this book not only reflect the poet's range, but his willingness to delve into his obsessions from countless angles Full of despair yet never self-loathing, full of praise yet never nostalgic,Dismantling the Hillsis both ode and elegy. McGriff's vision of blue-collar life is one of complication…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 10/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 6.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Iron


Ash and Silt


Silt


Coos Bay


Seasons between Night and Day


When the Spirit Comes to Him as the Voice of Morning Light


Mother Expanding from the Piano, the Light, the Whales (1)


My Uncle Would Visit


Buying and Selling


Entering the Kingdom


Lower McKenzie


Lines Written before the Day Shift


Brief Elegy on the Tip of a Match


Five for the Roofer


76 Tank Farm, Highway 101


The Field


The Last Temptation of Christ


Mercy, Tear It Down


Mother Expanding from the Piano, the Light, the Whales (2)


Shift Change, 9 a.m


The Last Hour of Winter


Right Now, the Bridge


Keats's Sparrow


Cormorants


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