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Bezig met laden... Haywire: Poems (Swenson Poetry Award)door George Bilgere
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Heard GB on Garrison Keillor's radio show. Not sure if he is every man's poet but he sure is mine. Many of these poems hit home welling up emotions on recognizing similarities to my early family life. GB has a way of using standard English words that made me note how perfect they were in his sentences. Kind of like a poet would.... Will definitely read more. ( ) If you like Billy Collins, you'll love George Bilgere. His poetry is similarly humorous and accessible, and it's prone to the same delightful leaps of thought. There's a poem that features Beyonce prominently, a poem about teaching English as a second language, and a poem about rediscovering a favorite centerfold while throwing out old magazines. But often, just when you're lulled into thinking Haywire is all fun and games, you read the next line and find that this has all been an easy entry into something incredibly poignant. My favorites from the book: "Olympics" and "Chinese." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician's way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible and immanent, Bilgere brings us time after time to the inner reaches of a contemporary life. In subjects ranging from adolescent agony to the loss of parents to the comic pain of middle age, he finds no reason to turn away his gaze, and ultimately no reason not to define himself in joy. May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 10, with foreword by Edward Field. "This poet, you knew from his very first lines, didn't fall for anything phony ́his own language is irresistibly no-bullshit down to earth, even sassy.... Coming from one of the ethnic, industrial cities, his work has a gritty element. He recalls all the sorrows of a life ́the drunken father, the parents' divorce, his mother's death, his unremitting horniness, his own divorce ́nothing special, just what we all have to deal with one way or another. And yet he ends on an almost contented note. Haywire is remarkable for being an essentially happy book, though with an ironic eye cast on such happiness while children are starving. And when he arrives at this, we're glad for him. Here, I felt, was an irresistible, not-so-easy, engaging humanness. Bilgere is a damn good poet." ́Edward Field, Judge of the 2006 Swenson Award Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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