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Thresherphobe
Mark Halliday
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Description for Thresherphobe
Paperback. Intends to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries - dire and hilarious - from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetnal frustration of our cravings for egotriumph, for sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for peace of spirit. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 136.
Classic Blunder - After a noticeably happy day I sleep - and wake at dawn to a sudden sense of having erred. What have I done? I've made the classic blunder the blunder of living onward forwardly toward some disappointing future - what a fool - I should have lived not forwardly but sideways or circularly to stay in days like (what now has to be called) yesterday. Instead I've allowed the sun already to start pouring through the curtains the diminishments and inferiorities of a crude and unsentimental next day. To keep that train from leaving the station must ... Read more
Classic Blunder - After a noticeably happy day I sleep - and wake at dawn to a sudden sense of having erred. What have I done? I've made the classic blunder the blunder of living onward forwardly toward some disappointing future - what a fool - I should have lived not forwardly but sideways or circularly to stay in days like (what now has to be called) yesterday. Instead I've allowed the sun already to start pouring through the curtains the diminishments and inferiorities of a crude and unsentimental next day. To keep that train from leaving the station must ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226038704
SKU
V9780226038704
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Ref
99-1
About Mark Halliday
Mark Halliday is disunguished professor of English at Ohio University His previous books include Selfwolf and Jab, both published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of a critical study of Wallace Stevens and many essays on contemporary poets.
Reviews for Thresherphobe
"A totally original, quintessentially American poet. Mark Halliday's work is forever in the pleasure section of my reading life. Sad very funny, thoughtful, honest lyrically and for mally adventurous, Halliday's voice is whimsical-seeming and crazy-quilt on the surface; in fact, his poems tremble and reel in the fierce abrasive currents of being alive" (Tony Hoagland)"