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American melancholy : poems

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    Voix de: Cheryl Smith
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins, 2021
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Temps de fonctionnement: 02:00 hrs
    Voix de: Cheryl Smith
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
    Contributor: Smith, Cheryl
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2021
    Summary:

    Covering subjects big and small, this poetry collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest.

    Contents:
    • I: The coming storm
    • In hemp-woven hammocks reading the Nation
    • Exsanguination
    • Little Albert, 1920
    • Harlow's monkeys
    • Obedience : 1962
    • Loney
    • The coming storm
    • Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926
    • II: The first room
    • The first room
    • Sinkholes
    • That other
    • The mercy
    • The blessing
    • This is not a poem
    • Apocalypso
    • III: American melancholy
    • To Marlon Brando in Hell
    • Too young to marry but not too young to die
    • Doctor help me
    • Old America has come home to die
    • Jubilate : an homage in catterel verse
    • Kite poem
    • American sign language
    • Hometown waiting for you
    • IV: "This is the time ... "
    • Hatefugue
    • A dream of stopped-up drains
    • Bloodline, elegy
    • Harvesting skin
    • "This is the time for which we have been waiting"
    • The tunnel
    • Palliative.
    Genre:
    Poetry
    Sujets: 21st century | American Poetry | POETRY / American / General | POETRY / General | POETRY / Women Authors
    Original Publisher: [New York], HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781799948629, 1799948625, 9781799948636, 1799948633